However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued to innovate ... is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third actor, while Euripides added ...

Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC ... His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who ...