Sophocles probably wrote at least four plays: Aleadae (The Sons of Aleus), Mysians, Telephus, and Eurypylus, involving Telephus and his family.Jouanna, p. 553; Lloyd-Jones, p. 33. A fifth play The Gathering of the Achaeans possibly also involved Telephus.Jouanna, p. 558; Webster, p. 43. A fourth-century BC inscription mentions a Telepheia by Sophocles, which may refer to a trilogy or tetralogy on Telephus, perhaps including one or more of these plays.Jouanna, p. 553; Lloyd-Jones, p. 33; Webster, p. 43. The Sons of Aleus presumably told the story of Telephus' killing his uncles, and thus fulfilling the oracle (see above). Fragments suggest a quarrel over Telephus' illegitimate birth, which perhaps resulted in the killings.Jouanna, pp. 552–553; Lloyd-Jones, pp. 32–41; Jebb, Headlam and Pearson, Vol. 1 pp. 46 ff.. Mysians and Telephus are presumed to continue the story of Telephus, after his arrival as an adult in Mysia.Jouanna, pp. 583–584; Lloyd-Jones, pp. 216–217; Jebb, Headlam and Pearson, Vol 2, p. 70 ff.. Sophocles' Eurypylus apparently told the story of Tellephus' son Eurypylus, killed at Troy by Achilles son Neoptolemus.According to Plutarch, the duel between Eurypylus and Neoptolemus featured in some work of Sophocles, and the play Eurypylus mentioned by Aristotle, was probably that work, see Jouanna, pp. 565–566; LLoyd-Jones, pp. 82–83; Gantz, p. 641; Plutarch, On the Control of Anger 10, 458D; Aristotle, Poetics 1459b.6. The irony of Achilles' son, killing Telephus' son, using the same spear that Achilles had used to heal Telephus, apparently also figured in the tragedy.Sophocles, Eurypylus frs. 210.24, 26–29 (Lloyd-Jones, pp. 86, 87 with note a, 88, 89), 211.10–13 (Lloyd-Jones, pp. 94, 95).
