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Although over 120 titles of plays associated with Sophocles are known and presented below, 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 over 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. These amount to about half of the play, making it the best preserved satyr play after Euripides' Cyclops, which survives in its entirety. Fragments of the 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. A number of other Sophoclean works have survived only in fragments, including:

  1. Aias Lokros (Ajax the Locrian)
  2. Aias Mastigophoros (Ajax the Whip-Bearer)
  3. Aigeus (Aegeus)
  4. Aigisthos (Aegisthus)
  5. Aikhmalôtides (The Captive Women)
  6. Aithiopes (The Ethiopians), or Memnon
  7. Akhaiôn Syllogos (The Gathering of the Achaeans)
  8. Akhilleôs Erastai ([male] Lovers of Achilles)
  9. Akrisios
  10. Aleadae (The Sons of Aleus)
  11. Aletes
  12. Alexandros (Alexander)
  13. Alcmeôn
  14. Amphiaraus
  15. Amphitryôn
  16. Amycos
  17. Andromache
  18. Andromeda
  19. Antenoridai (Sons of Antenor)
  20. Athamas (two versions produced)
  21. Atreus, or Mykenaiai
  22. Camicoi
  23. Cassandra
  24. Cedaliôn
  25. Cerberus
  26. Chryseis
  27. Clytemnestra
  28. Colchides
  29. Côphoi (Mute Ones)
  30. Creusa
  31. Crisis (Judgement)
  32. Daedalus
  33. Danae
  34. Dionysiacus
  35. Dolopes
  36. Epigoni (The Progeny)
  37. Eriphyle
  38. Eris
  39. Eumelus
  40. Euryalus
  41. Eurypylus
  42. Eurysaces
  43. Helenes Apaitesis (Helen's Demand)
  44. Helenes Gamos (Helen's Marriage)
  45. Herakles Epi Tainaro (Hercules At Taenarum)
  46. Hermione
  47. Hipponous
  48. Hybris
  49. Hydrophoroi (Water-Bearers)
  50. Inachos
  51. Iobates
  52. Iokles
  53. Iôn
  54. Iphigenia
  55. Ixiôn
  56. Lacaenae (Lacaenian Women)
  57. Laocoôn
  58. Larisaioi
  59. Lemniai (Lemnian Women)
  60. Manteis (The Prophets) or Polyidus
  61. Meleagros
  62. Minôs
  63. Momus
  64. Mousai (Muses)
  65. Mysoi (Mysians)
  66. Nauplios Katapleon (Nauplius' Arrival)
  67. Nauplios Pyrkaeus (Nauplius' Fires)
  68. Nausicaa, or Plyntriai
  69. Niobe
  70. Odysseus Acanthoplex (Odysseus Scourged with Thorns)
  71. Odysseus Mainomenos (Odysseus Gone Mad)
  72. Oeneus
  73. Oenomaus
  74. Palamedes
  75. Pandora, or Sphyrokopoi (Hammer-Strikers)
  76. Pelias
  77. Peleus
  78. Phaiakes
  79. Phaedra
  80. Philoctetes In Troy
  81. Phineus (two versions)
  82. Phoenix
  83. Phrixus
  84. Phryges (Phrygians)
  85. Phthiôtides
  86. Poimenes (The Shepherds)
  87. Polyxene
  88. Priam
  89. Procris
  90. Rhizotomoi (The Root-Cutters)
  91. Salmoneus
  92. Sinon
  93. Sisyphus
  94. Skyrioi (Scyrians)
  95. Skythai (Scythians)
  96. Syndeipnoi (The Diners, or, The Banqueters)
  97. Tantalus
  98. Telephus
  99. Tereus
  100. Teukros (Teucer)
  101. Thamyras
  102. Theseus
  103. Thyestes
  104. Troilus
  105. Triptolemos
  106. Tympanistai (Drummers)
  107. Tyndareos
  108. Tyro Keiromene (Tyro Shorn)
  109. Tyro Anagnorizomene (Tyro Rediscovered).
  110. Xoanephoroi (Image-Bearers)