Editing Sophocles (section)

=== Fragmentary plays ===
Although more  than 120 titles of plays associated with Sophocles are known and presented below,<ref>Lloyd-Jones 2003, pp. 3–9.</ref> little is known of the precise dating of most of them. ''Philoctetes'' is known to have been written in 409 BC, and ''Oedipus at Colonus'' is known to have only been performed in 401 BC, posthumously, at the initiation of Sophocles' grandson. The convention on writing plays for the [[Greek festivals]] was to submit them in tetralogies of three tragedies along with one [[satyr play]]. Along with the unknown dating of the vast majority of more than 120 plays, it is also largely unknown how the plays were grouped. It is, however, known that the three plays referred to in the modern era as the "Theban plays" were never performed together in Sophocles' own lifetime, and are therefore not a trilogy (which they are sometimes erroneously seen as).

Fragments of ''[[Ichneutae]]'' (''Tracking Satyrs'') were discovered in [[Egypt]] in 1907.<ref name="sea">Seaford, p. 1361.</ref> These amount to about half of the play, making it the best preserved [[satyr play]] after Euripides' ''[[Cyclops (play)|Cyclops]]'', which survives in its entirety.<ref name=sea/> Fragments of the ''[[Epigoni (play)|Epigoni]]'' were discovered in April 2005 by classicists at [[Oxford University]] with the help of [[infrared]] technology previously used for [[satellite]] imaging. The tragedy tells the story of the second siege of [[Thebes (Greece)|Thebes]].<ref name="theatermania.com"/> A number of other Sophoclean works have survived only in fragments, including:

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:* ''Aias Lokros'' (Ajax the Locrian)
:* ''Aias Mastigophoros'' (Ajax the Whip-Bearer)
:* ''[[Aigeus]]'' (Aegeus)
:* ''Aigisthos'' (Aegisthus)
:* ''Aikhmalôtides'' (The Captive Women)
:* ''[[Aithiopes]]'' (The Ethiopians), or ''Memnon''
:* ''Akhaiôn Syllogos'' (The Gathering of the Achaeans)
:* ''Akhilleôs Erastai'' ([male] Lovers of Achilles)
:* ''Akrisios''
:* ''Aleadae'' (The Sons of Aleus)
:* ''Aletes''
:* ''Alexandros'' (Alexander)
:* ''Alcmeôn''
:* ''[[Amphiaraus (Sophocles)|Amphiaraus]]''
:* ''Amphitryôn''
:* ''[[Amycos Satyrykos|Amycos]]''
:* ''Andromache''
:* ''Andromeda''
:* ''[[Antenorides|Antenoridai]]'' (Sons of Antenor)
:* ''Athamas'' (two versions produced)
:* ''Atreus'', or ''Mykenaiai''
:* ''Camicoi''
:* ''Cassandra''
:* ''Cedaliôn''
:* ''Cerberus''
:* ''Chryseis''
:* ''Clytemnestra''
:* ''Colchides''
:* ''Côphoi'' (Mute Ones)
:* ''Creusa''
:* ''Crisis'' (Judgement)
:* ''Daedalus''
:* ''Danae''
:* ''Dionysiacus''
:* ''Dolopes''
:* ''[[Epigoni (play)|Epigoni]]'' (The Progeny)
:* ''[[Epigoni (play)|Eriphyle]]''
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:* ''Eris''
:* ''Eumelus''
:* ''Euryalus''
:* ''Eurypylus''
:* ''Eurysaces''
:* ''Helenes Apaitesis'' (Helen's Demand)
:* ''Helenes Gamos'' (Helen's Marriage)
:* ''Herakles Epi Tainaro'' (Hercules At Taenarum)
:* ''Hermione''
:* ''Hipponous''
:* ''Hybris''
:* ''Hydrophoroi'' (Water-Bearers)
:* ''[[Inachus#Sophocles' account|Inachos]]''
:* ''Iobates''
:* ''Iokles''
:* ''Iôn''
:* ''Iphigenia''
:* ''Ixiôn''
:* ''Lacaenae'' ([[Sparta|Lacaenian]] Women)
:* ''Laocoôn''
:* ''Larisaioi''
:* ''Lemniai'' ([[Lemnos|Lemnian]] Women)
:* ''Manteis'' (The Prophets) or ''Polyidus''
:* ''Meleagros''
:* ''Minôs''
:* ''Momus''
:* ''Mousai'' (Muses)
:* ''Mysoi'' (Mysians)
:* ''Nauplios Katapleon'' (Nauplius' Arrival)
:* ''Nauplios Pyrkaeus'' (Nauplius' Fires)
:* ''Nausicaa'', or ''Plyntriai''
:* ''Niobe''
:* ''[[Odysseus Acanthoplex]]'' (Odysseus Scourged with Thorns)
:* ''Odysseus Mainomenos'' (Odysseus Gone Mad)
:* ''Oeneus''
:* ''Oenomaus''
:* ''Palamedes''
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:* ''Pandora'', or ''Sphyrokopoi'' (Hammer-Strikers)
:* ''Pelias''
:* ''Peleus''
:* ''Phaiakes''
:* ''Phaedra''
:* ''Philoctetes In Troy''
:* ''Phineus'' (two versions)
:* ''Phoenix''
:* ''Phrixus''
:* ''Phryges'' (Phrygians)
:* ''Phthiôtides''
:* ''Poimenes'' (The Shepherds)
:* ''Polyxene''
:* ''Priam''
:* ''Procris''
:* ''Rhizotomoi'' (The Root-Cutters)
:* ''Salmoneus''
:* ''Sinon''
:* ''Sisyphus''
:* ''Skyrioi'' (Scyrians)
:* ''Skythai'' (Scythians)
:* ''Syndeipnoi'' (The Diners, or, The Banqueters)
:* ''Tantalus''
:* ''Telephus''
:* ''[[Tereus (Sophocles)|Tereus]]''
:* ''Teukros'' (Teucer)
:* ''Thamyras''
:* ''Theseus''
:* ''Thyestes''
:* ''Troilus''
:* ''[[Triptolemos (Sophocles)|Triptolemos]]''
:* ''Tympanistai'' (Drummers)
:* ''Tyndareos''
:* ''Tyro Keiromene'' (Tyro Shorn)
:* ''Tyro Anagnorizomene'' (Tyro Rediscovered).
:* ''Xoanephoroi'' (Image-Bearers)
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