What Happened in 406 BC

Euripides Dies

Tragedies: 1. Alcestis (438 BCE, second prize) 2. Medea (431 BCE, third prize) 3. Heracleidae (c. 430 BCE) 4. Hippolytus (428... Read more

Sophocles Dies

There is a passage of Plutarch's tract De Profectibus in Virtute 7 in which Sophocles discusses his own growth as a writer. A likely source of this... Read more