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
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
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
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 Henry Theophilus Finck
Yet one of them, the Trachiniae, is, to my thinking, very poor and insipid.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan
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