King ; Antigone ; Philoctetes (Sophocles) ; Ajax (Sophocles) . Euripides, Εὐριπίδης (c. 480 BCE – 406 BCE ) Ancient Greek tragedian. Of his plays: Medea ; Electra (Euripides) ; The Trojan Women . Aristophanes Ἀριστοφάνης , ca. 446 BCE – ca. 386 BCE ) Comic playwright of ancient Athens. Also