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525 BCE - 456 BCE: Life of Greek tragedy poet Aeschylus.
496 BCE - 406 BCE: Life of Greek tragedy poet Sophocles.
493 BCE: Phrynichos' tragedy 'The Fall of Miletos' is first performed.
484 BCE - 407 BCE: Life of Greek tragedy poet Euripides.
477 BCE: Phrynichos' tragedy 'Phoencian Women' is first performed.
472 BCE: Aeschylus' tragedy 'Persians' is first performed.
468 BCE: Sophocles wins his first tragedy competition (title unknown).
467 BCE: Aeschylus' tragedy 'Seven Against Thebes' is first performed.
463 BCE: Aeschylus' tragedy 'The Suppliants' is first performed.
458 BCE: Aeschylus' tragedy trilogy Orestia: 'Agamemnon', Libation Bearers or 'Choephori', and 'The Eumenides' is first performed.
457 BCE: Aeschylus' tragedy 'Prometheus Bound' is first performed.
442 BCE: Sophocles' tragedy 'Antigone' is first performed.
438 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Alcestis' is first performed.
431 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Medeia' is first performed.
430 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Heraclidae' is first performed.
429 BCE - 420 BCE: Sophocles' tragedy 'Oedipus the King' is first performed.
428 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Hippolytus' is first performed.
425 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Andromache' is first performed.
423 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Hecuba' is first performed.
423 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Suppliants' is first performed.
417 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Hercules' is first performed.
416 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Electra' is first performed.
415 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Trojan Women' is first performed.
412 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Helen' is first performed.
412 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Iphigenia among the Taurians' is first performed.
410 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Ion' is first performed.
409 BCE: Sophocles' tragedy 'Philoctetes' is first performed.
409 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Phoenissae' is first performed.
408 BCE: Euripides' tragedy 'Orestes' is first performed.
408 BCE - 406 BCE: Euripides' tragedies 'Bacchae', 'Iphigenia at Aulis' are first performed.
401 BCE: Sophocles' tragedy 'Oedipus at Colonus' is first performed.