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13 Cards in this Set
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The Persians
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The Persians
Written by Aeschylus Chorus Persian Elders Characters Atossa Messenger Ghost of Darius Xerxes Date premiered 472 BCE Place premiered Athens Original language Ancient Greek Genre Tragedy Setting Susa |
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Seven against Thebes
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Written by Aeschylus
Chorus Theban Women Characters Eteocles Antigone Ismene Messenger Setting Citadel of Thebes |
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The Suppliants
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Written by Aeschylus
Chorus The Danaides Characters Danaus Pelasgus Herald of Aegyptus Attendants Setting shore of Argos |
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The Oresteia
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Written by Aeschylus
Chorus Elders of Argos Characters Watchman Clytemnestra Herald Agamemnon Messenger Cassandra Aegisthus Soldiers Servants Elders of Argos (Chorus) Setting Argos, before the royal palace |
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Ajax
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Written by Sophocles
Chorus Sailors from Salamis Characters Athena Odysseus Ajax Tecmessa Messenger Teucer Menelaus Agamemnon Mute Attendants Hats Servants Soldiers Eurysaces |
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Antigone
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Written by Sophocles
Chorus Theban Elders Characters Antigone Ismene Creon Eurydice Haemon Tiresias Sentry First Messenger Second Messenger Mute Two guards |
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Women of Trachis
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Written by Sophocles
Chorus Women of Trachis Characters Deianeira Nurse Hyllus Messenger Lichas Heracles Old man Original language Ancient Greek Genre Athenian tragedy Setting At Trachis, before the house of Heracles |
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Oedipus the King
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Written by Sophocles
Chorus Theban Elders Characters Oedipus Priest Creon Tiresias Jocasta Messenger Shepherd Second Messenger Mute Daughters of Oedipus (Antigone and Ismene) Date premiered c. 429 BCE Place premiered Theatre of Dionysos, Athens Original language Classical Greek Subject Episode from Mythological story of Oedipus Genre Athenian tragedy Setting Thebes |
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Electra
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Written by Sophocles
Chorus Women of Mycenae Characters Orestes Electra Chrysothemis old man Clytemnestra Aegisthus Mute Pylades handmaid attendants Place premiered City Dionysia Original language Ancient Greek Genre Tragedy Setting Mycenae, before the palace of the Pelopidae |
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Philoctetes
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Written by Sophocles
Chorus Greek Sailors Characters Odysseus Neoptolemus Philoctetes a spy Heracles Setting Before a cave at Lemnos |
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Oedipus at Colonus
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Written by Sophocles
Chorus Elders of Colonus Characters Oedipus Antigone Man from Colonus Ismene Theseus Creon Polyneices Messenger Setting In front of the grove of the Erinyes |
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Fragment plays
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Amphiaraus · Epigoni · Ichneutae · Tereus
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Alcestis
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Written by Euripides
Chorus Old men Characters Apollo Thanatos / Death Maidservant Alcestis Admetus Eumelus Heracles Pheres Date premiered 438 BCE Genre Tragedy Setting Pherae in Thessaly |
