GreekDraCor

Ancient Greek drama. 39 plays in TEI P5 format, adapted from the Perseus Digital Library, first converted to DraCor format in May 2019. Licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Menander's comedy “Dyskolos” derived from Wikisource, licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0.

The corpus is maintained by Julia Jennifer Beine (University of Würzburg) and Frank Fischer (Freie Universität Berlin).

Update: This corpus will be completely rebooted in 2026, also adding the latest versions from the PDL.

Content: 7 plays by Aeschylus, 8 by Sophocles, 13 by Euripides, 11 by Aristophanes, 1 by Menander.

Betacode to Unicode conversion done with betacode 0.2.

Thanks to Dmitry S. Krylov for the metric markup (June 2020).

Scans of the editions on which the Perseus Digital Library team based their digitisation:

• Aeschylus. With an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth. In two volumes.

  • Volume I. London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1922. (= The Loeb Classical Library 145).
    • Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes.
  • Volume II. London: William Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons 1926. (= The Loeb Classical Library 146).
    • Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides. Fragments.

• Sophocles. With an English translation by F. Storr. In two volumes.

  • Volume I. London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Co. 1912 (= The Loeb Classical Library 20).
    • Oedipus the King. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone.
  • Volume II. London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Co. 1913 (= The Loeb Classical Library 21).
    • Ajax. Electra. Trachiniae. Philoctetes.

• The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part IX. Edited with Translations and Notes by Arthur S. Hunt. London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1912. Number 1174. pp. 30–86.

  • Ichneutae.

• Euripidis Fabulae. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gilbertus Murray.

  • Tomus I. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1902 (= Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis).
    • Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea. Heraclidae. Hippolytus. Andromacha. Hecuba.
  • Tomus II. 3rd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1913 (= Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis).
    • Supplices. Hercules. Ion. Troiades. Electra. Iphigenia Taurica.
  • Tomus III. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1913 (= Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis).
    • Helena. Phoenissae. Orestes. Bacchae. Iphigenia Aulidensis. Rhesus.

• Aristophanis Comoediae. Recognoverunt brevique adnotatione critica instruxerunt F. W. Hall et W. M. Geldart. 2 Tomi.

  • Tomus I. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1906 (= Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis).
    • Acharnenses. Equites. Nubes. Vespae. Pax. Aves.
  • Tomus II. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press [1907] (= Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis).
    • Lysistrata. Thesmophoriazusae. Ranae. Ecclesiazusae. Plutus. Fragmenta.

Missing plays

The Greek Drama section of Perseus features more plays by Euripides. They are from an edition that does not seem to be in the public domain:

• Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Forthcoming (1994?).
  • Alcestis. Andromache. Cyclops. Heracleidae. Hippolytus. Medea.

These plays are not in the downloadable set of Greek plays. We are ready to add them to the Greek Drama Corpus as soon as the copyright situation is clarified.