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Trachiniae

American  
[truh-kin-ee-ee] / trəˈkɪn iˌi /

noun

  1. a tragedy (c430 b.c.) by Sophocles.


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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

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

Schlegel should have doubted the Sophoclean authorship of the Trachiniae.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

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