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===Extant plays=== {| class="wikitable" |+Estimated chronological order ! Play ! Date BC ! Prize ! Lineage ! Resolutions ! Genre (and notes) |- | ''[[Alcestis (play)|Alcestis]]'' | 438 | 2nd | '''S''' | 6.2 | tragedy with elements of a [[satyr play]] |- | ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'' | 431 | 3rd | '''S''' | 6.6 | tragedy |- | ''[[Children of Heracles|Heracleidae]]'' | {{circa|430}} | | '''A''' | 5.7 | political/patriotic drama |- | ''[[Hippolytus (play)|Hippolytus]]'' | 428 | 1st | '''S''' | 4.3 | tragedy |- | ''[[Andromache (play)|Andromache]]'' | {{circa|425}} | | '''S''' | 11.3 | tragedy (not produced in Athens)<ref name="Harvard University Press">{{cite book |last1=Kovacs |first1=David |title=Euripides, Vol. I: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea |date=1994 |publisher=Harvard University Press |page=17}}</ref> |- | ''[[Hecuba (play)|Hecuba]]'' | {{circa|424}} | | '''S''' | 12.7 | tragedy |- | ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|The Suppliants]]'' | {{circa|423}} | | '''A''' | 13.6 | political/patriotic drama |- | ''[[Electra (Euripides)|Electra]]'' | {{circa|420}} | | '''A''' | 16.9 | engages "untragically" with the traditional myth and with other dramatizations of it<ref name="Justina Gregory 2005 page 254"/> |- | ''[[Herakles (Euripides)|Herakles]]'' | {{circa|416}} | | '''A''' | 21.5 | tragedy |- | ''[[The Trojan Women]]'' | 415 | 2nd | '''S''' | 21.2 | tragedy |- | ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'' | {{circa|414}} | | '''A''' | 23.4 | romantic drama |- | ''[[Ion (play)|Ion]]'' | {{circa|413}}<ref name="Harvard University Press"/> | | '''A''' | 25.8 | romantic drama |- | ''[[Helen (play)|Helen]]'' | 412 | | '''A''' | 27.5 | romantic drama |- | ''[[Phoenician Women]]'' | {{circa|410}} |2nd | '''S''' | 25.8 | tragedy (extensive interpolations) |- | ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' | 408 | | '''S''' | 39.4 | tragedy |- | ''[[The Bacchae|Bacchae]]'' | 405 | 1st | '''S''' | 37.6 | tragedy (posthumously produced) |- | ''[[Iphigenia in Aulis]]'' | 405 | 1st | '''A''' | 34.7 | tragedy (posthumously produced with extensive interpolations) |- | ''[[Rhesus (play)|Rhesus]]'' | ? | | '''S''' | 8.1 | tragedy (authorship disputed) |- | ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'' | ? | | '''A''' | | satyr play (the only fully extant example of this genre) |} Key: :'''Date''' indicates date of first production. :'''Prize''' indicates a place known to have been awarded in festival competition. :'''Lineage''': '''S''' denotes plays surviving from a 'Select' or 'School' edition, '''A''' plays surviving from an 'Alphabetical' edition<ref name="PLPE lx"/>{{emdash}}see [[Euripides#Transmission|Transmission]] above for details. :'''Resolutions''': Number of resolved feet per 100 trimeters, Ceadel's list<ref>E.B.Ceadel, 'Resolved Feet in the Trimeters of Euripides', ''Classical Quarterly'' xxxv (1941), pp. 66β89</ref><ref>William Ritchie, ''The Authenticity of the Rhesus of Euripides'', Cambridge University Press (1964), p. 261</ref>{{emdash}}see [[Euripides#Chronology|Chronology]] above for details. :'''Genre''': Generic orientation<ref>Justina Gregory, 'Euripidean Tragedy', in ''A Companion to Greek Tragedy'', Justina Gregory (ed.), Blackwell Publishing Ltd (2005), pp. 254β58</ref> (see 'Transmission' section) with additional notes in brackets.
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