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Trachiniae

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[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

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 Hight, George Ainslie

Yet one of them, the Trachiniae, is, to my thinking, very poor and insipid.

From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir

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 Finck, Henry Theophilus

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.

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