The Women of Trachis

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf tragedy
gptkbp:author Sophocles
gptkbp:cataloguedIn gptkb:Perseus_Digital_Library
gptkb:Loeb_Classical_Library
gptkbp:criticalReception debated authorship in antiquity
considered less complex than other Sophoclean tragedies
gptkbp:firstPerformed circa 450 BCE
gptkbp:firstPublished 1502, Aldine Press
gptkbp:genre tragedy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Women of Trachis
gptkbp:influenced later Greek and Roman tragedy
gptkbp:line 1278
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Iole
gptkb:Heracles
gptkb:Hyllus
gptkb:Deianeira
gptkb:Lichas
gptkbp:notableAdaptation The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker
gptkbp:numberOfMembers 15
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:partOf Sophocles' extant plays
gptkbp:preservedIn complete
Sophoclean manuscript tradition
gptkbp:referencedIn gptkb:Aristotle's_Poetics
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Trachis,_Greece
gptkbp:structure prologue, parodos, episodes, stasimon, exodos
gptkbp:subject myth of Heracles
Deianeira's jealousy
Nessus's blood
death of Heracles
tragic misunderstanding
gptkbp:theme gptkb:marriage
death
fate
jealousy
tragic error
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Robert_Torrance
gptkb:E.F._Watling
gptkb:Michael_Jameson
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Greek_drama
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6