Trachiniae
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Eaton has set John Donne's sonnets to music, launched a three-hour opera based on Sophocles' Trachiniae and Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles there are three which throw some light on the contemporary attitude toward women and the different kinds of domestic attachment—the Ajax, the Trachiniae and Antigone.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
In the Trachiniae is another, outraged as Medea was, yet forgiving.
From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb
The only play which has come down to us where love is a predominant motive is the Trachiniae.
From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight
In other words, The Trachiniae is an object-lesson to Greek wives, telling us what the men thought they ought to be.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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