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The trilogy containing Oedipus Rex took second prize in the City Dionysia at its original performance. Aeschylus's nephew Philocles took first prize at that competition. [13] However, in his Poetics, Aristotle considered Oedipus Rex to be the tragedy which best matched his prescription for how drama should be made. [14]
A nephew of Aeschylus, Philocles (his sister's son), was also a tragic poet, and won first prize in the competition against Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. [17] [24] Aeschylus had at least two brothers, Cynegeirus and Ameinias.
Oedipus (UK: / ˈ iː d ɪ p ə s /, also US: / ˈ ɛ d ə-/; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family.
One of these plays, Prometheus Bound, however, may actually be the work of Aeschylus's son Euphorion. [33] Seven works of Sophocles have survived, the most acclaimed of which are the three Theban plays, which center around the story of Oedipus and his offspring. [34] The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and ...
431 BC - Euphorion, son of Aeschylus; Sophocles took 2nd place; Euripides took 3rd with Medea; 428 BC - Euripides ; 427 BC - Philocles, nephew of Aeschylus; Sophocles took 2nd place with Oedipus Rex [8] 416 BC - Agathon; 415 BC - Xenocles; 409 BC - Sophocles (Philoctetes) 405 BC - Euripides (The Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, Alcmaeon in Corinth)
Philocles is best known for winning first prize in the competition against Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. [2] [3] Philocles also wrote a play on the subject of Tereus, which was parodied in Aristophanes' The Birds along with Sophocles' treatment of the same subject. [4] A scholiast has noted that Philocles' Tereus was part of his Pandionis tetralogy. [4]
Aeschylus, in Seven Against Thebes, assigns each of the Seven to one of the seven gates of Thebes, as do Euripides in The Phoenician Women, and Apollodorus. [33] While the names of the gates are similar among these sources, there is little agreement with respect to the assignments. Aeschylus further assigns a Theban defender to each gate. [34]
The tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides took most of their plots from myths of the age of heroes and the Trojan War. Many of the great tragic stories (e.g. Agamemnon and his children, Oedipus, Jason, Medea, etc.) took on their classic form in these tragedies.