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Rank the Greek plays.

>> No.21654978

I've only read Agamemnon and Medea. Medea is a much more interesting character.

>> No.21654997

>>21654964
1. Prometheus Bound
2. Oedipus trilogy
3. The rest

>> No.21655185

The Clouds
The Frogs
The rest of the plays by Aristophanes
Power Gap
The works of Æschylus
The works of Sophocles
Power Gap
The works of Euripides

>> No.21655277

>>21655185
>The works of Euripides
Hippolytus is the best play ever written

>> No.21655467

>>21655277
Only if you've never read the complete plays of Shakespeare, Moliere, Vega, Racine, Corneille, Jonson, Chapman, Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Marlowe, Webster, Kyd, Miller, Williams, Shelley, Beckett, O'Neill, Brecht, Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Wilde, Yeats, Sartre, Stoppard, Cervantes, et al

>> No.21655509
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>>21655277
Chuddy this is problematic.

>> No.21655902

>>21655467
Hippolytus is the best play ever written
>>21655509
Based

>> No.21656305

>>21654964
For me the Orestaia is at the very top. After that, the rest of Aeschylus and Sophocles is pretty close together. Then Euripedes and all the rest.

>> No.21656461

Just popping in to say that Philoctetes and Ajax don't get enough credit in discussions such as these

>> No.21656672

1. Orestia Trilogy 2. Prometheus Bound 3. Theban Trilogy 4. Philoctetes

5. Heracles 6. Hecuba 7. Medea 8. Bacchae 9. Persians 10. Ajax 11. Andromache 12. Trojan Woman 13. Women of Trachis 14. Electra 15. Orestes

16. Iphigenia at Aulis 17. Iphigenia in Tauris 18. Helen 19. Heracleidae 20. Alcestis

21. Seven Against Thebes 22. Aeschylus' Suppliant Women 23. Ion 24. Phoenician Women 25. Rhesus

>> No.21656697

>>21656672
What the fuck formatting is this lel

>> No.21656822

The Bacchae
I read somewhere the NT lifted sections of it.

>> No.21656974

>>21656672
Surely you meant to start with
>1. Hippolytus