- Trachis/Trachinia" by the Spartans, who sent a
garrison in 427 BC to
guard the
Trachinian plain against the
marauding highland tribes of Oeta, and
built a citadel...
-
advance of the much
larger Persian army.
Although this gap
between the
Trachinian Cliffs and the
Malian Gulf was only "wide
enough for a
single carriage"...
-
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...
-
Elders of
Thebae Philoctetes -
Sailors of
Neoptolemus Women of
Trachis -
Trachinian Women Euripides:
Alcestis -
Elders of
Pherae Andromache -
Phthian Women...
-
Agamemnon to
grant Ajax a
proper burial. The
Women of
Trachis (named for the
Trachinian women who make up the chorus)
dramatizes Deianeira's
accidentally killing...
-
Persian king was
pondering what to do next, he
received a windfall; a
Trachinian named Ephialtes informed him of the
mountain path
around Thermopylae and...
- from its position, of
great military importance. The
entrance to the
Trachinian plain was only half a
plethrum [50 feet (15 m)] in breadth, but the surface...
- Little,
Brown and Company. p. 75. Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 513 Sophocles,
Trachinian Women 26 Comp.
Eustathius on Homer,
Iliad p. 1335 McClintock, John (1889)...
