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called Trachis until 426 BC, when it was
refounded as a
Spartan colony and
became Heraclea Trachinia. It is
located to the west of Thermopylae.
Trachis is...
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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...
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According to Herodotus, this
bounty was
collected by
Athenades (Ἀθηνάδης) of
Trachis approximately a
decade after the
second Persian invasion of
Greece was...
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seven have
survived in a
complete form: Ajax, Antigone,
Women of
Trachis,
Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and
Oedipus at Colonus. For almost...
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against the Oetaeans. The
Spartans then
founded the town
Heraclea Trachis in
place of
Trachis. In the
following decades, the
Malians were
under the hegemony...
- the city
Trachis was 5
stadia from the
river Melas, and that the
river Asopus issued from a
gorge in the mountains, to the
south of
Trachis. According...
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Trachis after marrying King Ceyx. The
latter was the son of
Eosphorus (often
translated as Lucifer). The
couple were very
happy together in
Trachis....
- mythology, Ceyx (/ˈsiːɪks/;
Ancient Gr****: Κήϋξ, translit. Kēüx) was a king of
Trachis in Thessaly. He
received Heracles, and Heracles's sons
later fled to him...
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Trachis (Ancient Gr****: Τραχίς), and
Trachis Phocica (Τραχίς ἡ Φωκική) to
distinguish it from the
Trachis in Malis, was a
small city of
ancient Phocis...
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Shirt of Nessus. She is the main
character in Sophocles' play
Women of
Trachis.
Deianira was the
daughter of
Althaea and her
husband Oeneus (whose name...
