The tragedians of ancient Athens, who wrote the surviving plays of the fifth century BCE and set the form of tragedy for later theatre. A playwright belongs here when the cited article calls the person an ancient or classical Greek tragedian. It excludes Roman and later classicizing dramatists. Their surviving tragedies, performed at festivals in Athens, dramatized myths and the troubles of households and cities, and introduced devices such as a second and third actor that later playwrights inherited.
Ancient Greek Dramatists
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Aeschylus (Wikipedia)
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Aeschylus (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525/524, c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy.
Wikipedia: Sophocles
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Sophocles (; Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, pronounced [so.pʰo.klɛ̂ːs], Sophoklễs; c. 497/496, winter 406/405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full.
Wikipedia: Euripides
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Euripides (; Ancient Greek: Eὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480, c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens.
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