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Sophocles, Women Of Trachis, 39-40


nanto and from our home in servitude to some master. But now, when he has risen above those trials—now it is that my fear is keenest. For ever since he slew the mighty Iphitus, we have been dwelling here in Trachis, refugees


nanin the home of a foreign host. But where Heracles is, no one knows. I only know that he is gone, and has caused me sharp pain for him. I am almost sure that he has come to some suffering. The interval has not been brief; rather, he is unheard from ten months already


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

6 results
1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 487-488, 472 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

472. φόνου διαιρεῖν ὀξυμηνίτου δίκας·
2. Aeschylus, Persians, 242, 241 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

241. τίς δὲ ποιμάνωρ ἔπεστι κἀπιδεσπόζει στρατῷ; Χορός 241. And who is set over them as shepherd and is master of their host? Chorus
3. Herodotus, Histories, 3.81.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3.81.3. Let those like democracy who wish ill to Persia ; but let us choose a group of the best men and invest these with the power. For we ourselves shall be among them, and among the best men it is likely that there will be the best counsels.”
4. Sophocles, Antigone, 760, 781-782, 367 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 79-80, 78 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 11, 1191, 12-23, 238, 24-25, 252, 26-27, 40, 73-79, 88, 9-10 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. who in three shapes was always asking me from my father—coming now as a bull in visible form, now as a serpent, sheeny and coiled, now ox-faced with human trunk, while from his thick-shaded beard wellheads of fountain-water sprayed.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
actors Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
aeschylus,dramas by\n,eumenides Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
antigone,and love Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
areopagite council Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
arrival,of the chorus Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
athena Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
athens Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
ceyx Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
characters,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
chorus,the,arrival of Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
creon,and hatred Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
deianeira (mythical princess) Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
deianira,introductory monologue of Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
diptych tragedies Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
electra (sophocles),entrances in Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
heracles/hercules (hero) Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
humans Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
hymn,to eros Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
monologue,introductory Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
neoptolemus (son of achilles) Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
old oligarch Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
prologue,entrances in Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
prologue,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
sequence,mythic,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 536
sophocles,dramas by\n,trachiniae Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
structure,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
subject,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 536
trachis' Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 202
women of trachis,the (sophocles),introductory monologue to Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
women of trachis,the (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 536, 538