Trachiniae
Americannoun
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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
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
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
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