- Thespis (c. 6th century BC):
- Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC):
- The Persians (472 BC)
- Seven Against Thebes (467 BC)
- The Suppliants (463 BC)
- The Oresteia (458 BC, a trilogy comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides.)
- Prometheus Bound (authorship and date of performance is still in dispute)
- Phrynichus (~511 BC):
- The Fall of Miletus (c. 511 BC)
- Phoenissae (c. 476 BC)
- Danaides
- Actaeon
- Huzaifus
- Alcestis
- Tantalus
- Achaeus of Eretria (484-c. 405 BC)
- Adrastus
- Linus
- Cycnus
- Eumenides
- Philoctetes
- Pirithous
- Theseus
- Œdipus
- Achaeus of Syracuse (c. 356 BC)
- Agathon (c. 448–400 BC)
- Aphareus (4th century BC)
- Asklepios**
- Akhilleus**
- Tantalos**
- Sophocles (c. 495–406 BC):
- Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle:
- Antigone (c. 442 BC)
- Oedipus Rex (c. 429 BC)
- Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC, posthumous)
- Ajax (unknown, presumed earlier in career)
- The Trachiniae (unknown)
- Electra (unknown, presumed later in career)
- Philoctetes (409 BC)
- Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle:
- Euripides (c. 480–406 BC):
- Alcestis (438 BC)
- Medea (431 BC)
- The Heracleidae (Herakles Children) (c. 429 BC)
- Hippolytus (428 BC)
- Electra (c. 420 BC)
- Sisyphos (415 BC)
- Andromache (428–24 BC)
- The Suppliants (422 BC)
- Hecuba (424 BC)
- Herakles (421–416 BC)
- The Trojan Women (Troades) (415 BC)
- Ion (414–412 BC)
- Iphigenia in Tauris (414–412 BC)
- Helen (412 BC)
- The Phoenician Women (The Phoinissae) (411–409 BC)
- Iphigenia At Aulis (Iphigenia ad Aulis) (410 BC)
- Orestes (408 BC)
- The Cyclops (c. 408 BC)
- The Bacchae (405 BC, posthumous)
- Rhesus (unknown)
- Euphorion (5th century BC); possibly the author of Prometheus Bound, which is often attributed to his father Aeschylus
- Phaesus (411–321 BC)
- Philocles (c.5th century BC)