Films based on plays by Aeschylus
Title Release date NotesHercules Unchained1959ItalyThe Family Reunion1959TV movie, CanadaLes Perses1961TV movie, FranceAeschylus1967TV movie, FinlandI Persiani1967TV movie, ItalyThe Forgotten Pistolero1969ItalyAgamemnon1973BelgiumOrestea1975ItalyAtreides1979TV movie, GreeceOresteia1979TV mini-series, UKPrometheus Retrogressing1998Le Rêve Plus Fort que la Mort2002FranceDie Perser2003Germany
Films based on Sophocles
Title Release date NotesOedipe roi1908Oedipus Rex1909Oedipus Rex1911Oedipus Rex1957Antigone1960Acosados, Los1960Antigone1961Antigone1962Edipo re1967Oedipus the King1968Élo Antigoné1968Antigone1970The Year of the Cannibals1970Elektra1970Antigone1973Antigone1973Antigone1974Antigone1974Oedipus Rex1975Elektra1981Oedipus Rex1984Oedipus the King1984Oedipus at Colonus1984Elettra1987Électre1987Elektra1989Antigone/Rites of Passion1991Oedipus Rex1992Elektra1994
Films based on Euripides
Title Release date NotesMedea 1959United States - TV play of the weekLe Baccanti1961ItalyPhaedra1962GreeceElectra1962GreeceTroyanas, Las1963Medea1963Troerinnen, Die1966Medea1969Dionysus in '691970The Trojan Women (film)1971Medéia1973Bakchen, Die1974Iphigenia1977A Dream of Passion1978GreeceMedea1983Medea1983Medea1989Iphigenia at Aulis1991Backanterna1993Médée2001The Bacchae 2002The Trojan Women2004Medea2005The Women of Troy2006The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017
Films based on Aristophanes
Title Release date NotesDaughters of Destiny1954The Second Greatest Sex1955Sendung der Lysistrata, Die1961Escuela de seductoras1962An oles oi gynaikes tou kosmou1967Flickorna1968Lysistrate1982Komediya o Lisistrate1989Chi-Raq2015
See also Fiction set in ancient Rome Fiction set in ancient Greece List of films based on classical mythology List of films based on Germanic mythology List of films based on Slavic mythology List of films set in ancient Greece List of films set in ancient Rome List of films set in ancient Egypt
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