is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third actor, while Euripides added both a prologue, introducing the subject of the play, and the deus ex machina ...

The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all ... The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle argued that tragedy ...

And how far do modern ideas about tragedy, derived from Aristotle, apply to Sophocles’ plays? They then look in more detail at Oedipus Tyrannos and Antigone and what the plays have to say about agency ...