Fragments
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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:
- 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
- Amphitryôn
- Amycos
- Andromache
- Andromeda
- 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 (The Progeny)
- Eriphyle
- 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)
- Inachos
- Iobates
- Iokles
- Iôn
- Iphigenia
- Ixiôn
- Lacaenae (Lacaenian Women)
- Laocoôn
- Larisaioi
- Lemniai (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
- 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
- Teukros (Teucer)
- Thamyras
- Theseus
- Thyestes
- Troilus
- Triptolemos
- Tympanistai (Drummers)
- Tyndareos
- Tyro Keiromene (Tyro Shorn)
- Tyro Anagnorizomene (Tyro Rediscovered).
- Xoanephoroi (Image-Bearers)
