Trachiniae

American  

[truh-kin-ee-ee] / trəˈkɪn iˌi /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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 the Trachiniae is another, outraged as Medea was, yet forgiving.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

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

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

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