For the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by
those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have been
preserved since they were first produced in the fifth century BC. From
that period and the next two hundred years more than eighty other tragic
poets are known from biographical and production data, play-titles,
mythical subject-matter, and remnants of their works quoted by other
ancient writers or rediscovered in papyrus texts. This edition includes
all the remnants of tragedies that can be identified with these other
poets, with English translations, related historical information,
detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume 1 includes some
twenty 5th-century poets, notably Phrynichus, Aristarchus, Ion, Achaeus,
Sophocles' son Iophon, Agathon and the doubtful cases of Neophron
(author of a Medea supposedly imitated by Euripides) and Critias
(possibly author of three other tragedies attributed to Euripides).
Volume 2 will include
the 4th- and 3rd-century tragedians and some anonymous material derived
from ancient sources or rediscovered papyrus texts.
Remnants of these poets' satyr-plays are included in a separate Aris &
Phillips Classical Texts volume, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments
of Greek Satyric Drama, edited by Patrick O'Sullivan and Christopher
Collard (2013).