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Women of
Trachis or The
Trachiniae (Ancient Gr****: Τραχίνιαι, Trachiniai) c. 450–425 BC, is an
Athenian tragedy by Sophocles.
Women of
Trachis is generally...
- & The
Persians 343; Euripides,
Phoenician Women 1550; Sophocles, The
Trachiniae 1092; Plutarch, De
Defectu Oraculorum 13; Pausanias, 8.24.8 Euripides...
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reference to the
oracle of Zeus at Dodona.
Other than one
reference in
Trachiniae,
these are the only
extant references to
Dodona in Sophocles' works. classicist...
- character,
which was
demonstrated by Sophocles's
depiction of the hero in The
Trachiniae.
Heracles threatened his
marriage with his
desire to
bring two
women under...
- of
classical literature sources for the
Erymanthian boar: Sophocles,
Trachiniae 1097 (trans. Jebb) (Gr****
tragedy C5th BC)
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica...
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theme appears in
certain versions of the
story of Medea. Sophocles' play
Trachiniae (Women of Trachis) is
extensively based on a
retelling of this myth. Before...
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capacity of
Aspasia in the
household of Pericles, and to
Sophocles in The
Trachiniae it was
shameful for
Heracles to
serve an
Oriental woman in this fashion...
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Colonus (401 BC, posthumous) Ajax (unknown,
presumed earlier in career) The
Trachiniae (unknown)
Electra (unknown,
presumed later in career)
Philoctetes (409...
- more a revelation of his
state of mind when
making his
version of the
Trachiniae than of Sophocles' intentions, and the ad-libbing he
allowed himself at...
- 5.4, 2.7.6;
Diodorus Siculus, 4.36.3; Hyginus,
Fabulae 31; Sophocles,
Trachiniae 500 ff.; Strabo, 10.2.5;
Valerius Flaccus, 1.147
Diodorus Siculus, 4.12...
