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Trachiniae
By Sophocles - Stage play
Roles
- Deianeira - Adult (36-50), Senior (>50), Female
About this piece
Deianeira tells the Chorus she is afraid her husband's dead
Summary
The play deals with Deianeira's jealousy for her Heracles', her husband, attraction for a younger woman, Iole. Iole is a young woman that Heracles brings back to Trachis as a slave after having won a battle. Determined to keep her husband, Deianeria tries a love charm on Heracles but accidentally injuring him. Realizing what she has done, she kills herself. Heracles, being in agony, asks to be killed by being burned alive. This monologue is in the first scene of the play. Deianeira is addressing the Chorus of Trachinian maidens. She laments about her griefs and anxieties. She tells them the thing that worries her the most is that she is afraid her husband, that she hasn't seen for more than a year, is now dead.
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