Euripides won the dramatic competitions with the trilogy containing Hippolytus in 428, and posthumously with the trilogy containing Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis, produced probably in 405, and on only two other occasions.....
We possess nineteen of the ninety-two plays Euripides is said to have written, and know the titles of about eighty. The plays we possess are of two classes: (i) a selection of ten plays perhaps made c. AD 200 and transmitted with scholia, consisting of Alcestis (438, second prize), Medea (431, third prize), Hippolytus (428, first prize), Andromache (date not known; c.426), Hecuba (date not known; c.424), Trojan Women (415, second prize), Phoenician Women (see PHOENISSAE; between 412 and 408), Orestes (408), Bacchae (405; the scholia are lost), and Rhesus (perhaps not genuine); (ii) part of an alphabetic arrangement of his work comprising plays whose (Greek) titles begin with the Greek letters E to K, namely, Helen (412), Electra (date not known; c.417), Children of Heracles (Heracleidae) (date not known; c.430), Madness of Heracles (date not known; c.417), Suppliant Women (see SUPPLIANTS 2; date not known; c.422), Iphigeneia at Aulis (405; produced with Bacchae), Iphigeneia in Tauris (date not known; c.414), Ion (date not known; c.410), and Cyclops (a satyric drama, probably late). In this second group we therefore have some plays of Euripides that may be considered a representative selection of his work rather than plays selected for a purpose, such as a school curriculum. Very fragmentary remains of several lost plays have turned up on papyri in the twentieth century.
We possess nineteen of the ninety-two plays Euripides is said to have written, and know the titles of about eighty. The plays we possess are of two classes: (i) a selection of ten plays perhaps made c. AD 200 and transmitted with scholia, consisting of Alcestis (438, second prize), Medea (431, third prize), Hippolytus (428, first prize), Andromache (date not known; c.426), Hecuba (date not known; c.424), Trojan Women (415, second prize), Phoenician Women (see PHOENISSAE; between 412 and 408), Orestes (408), Bacchae (405; the scholia are lost), and Rhesus (perhaps not genuine); (ii) part of an alphabetic arrangement of his work comprising plays whose (Greek) titles begin with the Greek letters E to K, namely, Helen (412), Electra (date not known; c.417), Children of Heracles (Heracleidae) (date not known; c.430), Madness of Heracles (date not known; c.417), Suppliant Women (see SUPPLIANTS 2; date not known; c.422), Iphigeneia at Aulis (405; produced with Bacchae), Iphigeneia in Tauris (date not known; c.414), Ion (date not known; c.410), and Cyclops (a satyric drama, probably late). In this second group we therefore have some plays of Euripides that may be considered a representative selection of his work rather than plays selected for a purpose, such as a school curriculum. Very fragmentary remains of several lost plays have turned up on papyri in the twentieth century.
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