Antigone

The three Theban plays

In the order the story runs — which is not the order they were written:

1. Oedipus the Kingc. 429 BC
2. Oedipus at Colonus401 BC
3. Antigonec. 441 BC

Not a trilogy, whatever the covers say. Aeschylus wrote those as single works staged in one morning; these three were written decades apart, each competing alongside other plays now lost, and they do not always agree with one another on the details. The dates give it away — the play that ends the story is the one Sophocles wrote first, and the one that ends the sequence was staged after he died.