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
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
Schlegel should have doubted the Sophoclean authorship of the Trachiniae.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
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
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