The first of the classic triumvirate of ancient Greek tragedian playwrights is born. The others are Sophocles (496–406 BCE) and Euripides (480–406 BCE).
Some especially noted works:
–Aeschylus: The Persians
–Sophocles: Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
–Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Electra, the Bacchae, and the Satyr play, Cyclops