The Four Kinds of Greek Tragedy: A List

From Archibald C. Coolidge Jr.'s Book Beyond the Fatal Flaw

I: Choral lament drama
- Aeschylus: The Suppliants, The Persians, Agamemnon
- Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
- Euripides: The Heracleidae, The Trojan Women

II: Drama of reversal
- Aeschylus: The Choephori
- Sophocles: The Trachiniae, Oedipus the King
- Euripides: Rhesus, Medea, Hecuba, Heracles

III: Drama of order
- Aeschylus: The Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, The Eumenides
- Sophocles: Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Philoctetes
- Eurpides: Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra

IV: Ironic order dramas
- Euripides: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Andromache, The Suppliants, Ion, Helen, The Phoenissae, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Bacchae