Timeline of Events
Between 536 and 533 BC
Thespis' first performance of tragedy at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Thespis (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Thespis Test. 1, Thespis Test. 2
Between 524 and 521 BC
Choerilus' first participation at the City Dionysia tragic contest.
- Poet(s):
Choerilus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Choerilus Test. 1
Corresponding event(s): Choerilus' (first?) victory at the City Dionysia
Between 511 and 482 BC
Phrynichus' first victory at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Phrynichus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Phrynichus Test. 1, Phrynichus Test. 3
Between 500 and 497 BC
Choerilus, Pratinas and Aeschylus competed at the tragic contest of the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Choerilus (*),Pratinas (*),Aeschylus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Choerilus Test. 2, Pratinas Test. 1
Between 500 and 467 BC
Collapse of the wooden benches on which the spectators stood, while a play of Pratinas was being performed.
- Poet(s):
Pratinas (*) - Type: incident
- Source(s): Pratinas Test. 1
Between 493 and 490 BC
Phrynichus stages his tragedy Capture of Miletus.
- Poet(s):
Phrynichus (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Phrynichus Test. 9, Phrynichus Test. 10
485 BC
Euetes is active as tragic poet in Athens, "six years before the Persian Wars".
- Poet(s):
Euetes (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Euetes Test. 1
Between 483 and 480 BC
Euetes' first (and only) victory at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Euetes (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Euetes Test. 2
483 BC
Choerilus' (first?) victory at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Choerilus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Choerilus Test. 3
Corresponding event(s): Choerilus' first participation at the City Dionysia tragic contest
Between 483 and 471 BC
Polyphrasmon's first victory at the City Dionysia. Possibly the same event as the one recorded in Test. 2.
- Poet(s):
Polyphrasmon (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Polyphrasmon Test. 1
Corresponding event(s): Polyphrasmon's victory at the City Dionysia
476 BC
Phrynichus' victory at the City Dionysia, possibly with a performance inlcuding the tragedy Phoenician Women. Themistocles was the choregοs.
- Poet(s):
Phrynichus (*) - Choregus:
Themistocles (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory, choregic tragic victory
- Source(s): Phrynichus Test. 4
471 BC
Polyphrasmon's victory at the City Dionysia. Possibly the same event as the one recorded in Test. 1.
- Poet(s):
Polyphrasmon (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Polyphrasmon Test. 2
Corresponding event(s): Polyphrasmon's first victory at the City Dionysia
467 BC
Aeschylus with the plays Laius, Oedipus, Seven against Thebes and Sphinx, Aristias with the plays Perseus, Tantalus, an unknown tragedy, and the satyr drama Wrestlers, and Polyphrasmon with a tetralogy on Lycurgus, competed at the tragic contest of the City Dionysia. Aeschylus won the first and Aristias the second prize. Polyphrasmon occupied the third place.
- Poet(s):
Aeschylus (*),Aristias (*),Polyphrasmon (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance, tragic victory
- Source(s): Pratinas Test. 2, Pratinas Test. 3, Aristias Test. 3, Aristias Test. 4, Polyphrasmon Test. 3, Polyphrasmon Test. 4
466 BC
Mesatus' first victory at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Mesatus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Mesatus Test. 1
Between 466 and 459 BC
Aeschylus with the plays Suppliants, Aegyptians, Danaids and the satyr drama Amymone, Sophocles, and Mesatus competed at the tragic contest of the City Dionysia. Aeschylus won the first and Sophocles the second prize.
- Poet(s):
Aeschylus (*),Sophocles (*),Mesatus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance, tragic victory
- Source(s): Mesatus Test. 2
465 BC
Aristias first victory at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Aristias (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Aristias Test. 1
453 BC
Aristarchus Tegeates wins his first victory at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Aristarchus Tegeates (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Aristarchus Tegeates Test. 2, Aristarchus Tegeates Test. 3
Between 451 and 448 BC
Ion’s first participation at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Ion (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Ion Test. 1
Between 448 and 445 BC
Achaeus’ first participation at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Achaeus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Achaeus Test. 1
Between 448 and 422 BC
Achaeus stages his tragedy Momos.
- Poet(s):
Achaeus (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Achaeus Test. 8
Between 448 and 405 BC
Achaeus stages his tragedy Aithon.
- Poet(s):
Achaeus (*) - Type: tragic performance
- Source(s): Achaeus Test. 9
Between 448 and 404 BC
Achaeus' first and only victory at the City Dionysia.
- Poet(s):
Achaeus (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic victory
- Source(s): Achaeus Test. 1
431 BC
Euphorion, Sophocles, and Euripides competed at the tragic contest of the City Dionysia. Euphorion won the first prize, Sophocles the second prize, Euripides came third staging Medea, Philoctetes, Dictys, and the satyr drama Reapers.
- Poet(s):
Euphorion (*),Sophocles (*),Euripides (*) - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance, tragic victory
- Source(s): Euphorion Test. 3
428 BC
Euripides, Iophon, and Ion competed at the tragic contest of the City Dionysia. Euripides won the first prize with the play Hippolytus, Iophon the second prize, and Ion came third.
- Poet(s):
Iophon (*),Ion (*), - Festival:
City Dionysia (*) - Type: tragic performance, tragic victory
- Source(s): Ion Test. 15
422 BC
Ion was probably dead before the performance of Aristophanes' Peace.
- Poet(s):
Ion (*) - Type: death
- Source(s): Ion Test. 11