Aeschylus

Aeschylus, 525 BC - 455 BC: myth and trilogy, the father of tragedy.

Single play: The Persians (472 BC)

• oldest extant play in existence
• not a trilogy and not based on myth
• battle of Salamis, 480 BC, Xerxes defeated

Trilogy: Oedipodea, only Seven Against Thebes survives;

• biggest conflict, last conflict before Trojan War 
• the three plays + a satyr play:
• Laius
• Oedipus
• Seven Against Thebes (only one of the three that survives) 
• Sphinx, a satyr play 

Trilogy/Tetralogy (presumed): the Danaid Tetralogy

• most likely one of his last plays
• three plays + a satyr play
• The Suppliants (The Suppliant Maidens) 
• The Egyptians (Aigyptioi)
• The Daughters of Danus (Danaïdes or The Danaids) -- worshipped as water-nymphs
• Amymone, a satry play

Trilogy: the Oresteia (458 BC)

• after Agamamnon returns home from the Trojan War
• the three plays+ a satyr play (all have been lost except a single line from Proteus) :
• Agamemnon
• The Libation Bearers
• The Eumenides 
• Proteus, a satyr play