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
Only a woman, too, was Deianira, the heroine of the Trachiniae, and though of exalted rank she fully realized this fact.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
Schlegel should have doubted the Sophoclean authorship of the Trachiniae.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
The most lovable woman in Greek literature is the heroine of the next play, the Trachiniae, produced at an uncertain date.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
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 Finck, Henry Theophilus
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