A Husband Like Heracles (Hercules), the Tragedy of Deianeira (Sophocles’ Trachiniae Part 1)
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The Traccinia - Episode 157, With a Husband Like Heracles, the Tragedy of Dionera
This is episode 157, with a husband like heracles, the tragedy of dionera. The opening lines of this play are so beautiful and brilliant that i'm going to share them again. People say you'll never know for sure whether life is good or bad until it ends in death. That's the human way. There are no aristophanian frogs to be found around here. What a way to open the play, to set the scene, the tone, to say, hey, this is a fuck and tragedy you're about to watch. I will simply explain that hylos, the name of his son, is spelled very vaguely differently from hylas, the nameof his boy
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