Everything that survives

every complete Greek play, both epics — the whole of it, in one lifetime

46 works survive0 read46 to goplenty of time

Aeschylus

0 of 7 read

7 of his ~90 plays survive.

Sophocles

0 of 7 read

7 of his ~123 plays survive.

Aristophanes

0 of 11 read

11 of his ~40 plays survive.

Euripides

0 of 18 read

19 of his ~92 plays survive.

Nineteen survive because one volume of a complete edition came through — a stretch of the alphabet, saved together by accident.

Homer

0 of 2 read

Everything survives — 27,803 lines. A miracle of copying.

Menander

0 of 1 read

1 of his ~108 plays survives.

One complete play, recovered from a papyrus in 1952. The rest are fragments.

authorship disputed. Prometheus Bound may not be Aeschylus — counted among his seven anyway, as every edition does, with an eyebrow raised. Rhesus may not be Euripides, and is shown here but left out of the forty-six.