Euripides is said to have written ninety-two plays, of which nineteen survive under his name, the largest number of any ancient Greek dramatist. There are two main medieval manuscripts: one of ten plays used in schools with scholia (ancients commentaries) and nine (without scholia) from an alphabetical collection (only H through K). At least seventeen tragedies are considered certainly by Euripides. Rhesus (date unknown) is disputed, and Cyclops is a satyr play (lighter drama). Some fragments also have survived.
| 485 (480?) |
Born on the island of Salamis near Athens or at Phyla (?). |
| 480 |
Persians sack Athens. Athens defeats them in the Battle of Salamis. |
| 469 |
Birth of Socrates, the philosopher and friend of Euripides. |
| 456 |
Death of the tragedian Aeschylus. |
| 455 (?) |
First play, now lost, The Peliades. |
| 447–432 |
Parthenon built during the Age of Pericles. |
| 441 |
First prize. Play unknown. |
| 438 |
Alcestis. |
| 431 |
Medea. Peloponnesian War begins between Athens and Sparta for the leadership of Greece and lasts till the defeat of Athens in 404. |
| 430 (?) |
Children of Heracles. Plague in Athens. |
| 429 |
Pericles dies in the plague. |
| 428 |
Hippolytus. |
| 425 (?) |
Andromache. |
| 424 (?) |
Hecuba. |
| 423 (?) |
Suppliant Women. |
| 420 (?) |
Electra. |
| 416 (?) |
Heracles. |
| 415 |
Trojan Women. Athenian attempt to annex Sicily fails miserably. Sicilians, said to have been charmed by the songs of Euripides, release Athenian prisoners. |
| 414 (?) |
Iphigenia in Tauris. |
| 413 (?) |
Ion. |
| 412 |
Helen. |
| 411–409 |
Phoenician Women. |
| 408 (?) |
Orestes, Cyclops. Euripides goes to the Court of Agelaus at Pella in Macedonia. |
| 407/406 (?) |
Iphigenia in Aulis. Dies at Pella. Bacchae produced posthumously. Death of rival playwright Sophocles. |
| 404 |
End of Peloponnesian War and fall of Athens. |