Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles

Author:Sophocles
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

WOMEN OF TRACHIS

Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a trial of strength with a rival suitor, the river-god Achelous. Still other tasks were in store for him, and while Deianeira made her home at Trachis, on the Malian Gulf, Heracles was continually engaged in various quests which took him from her side.

At the opening of the play, after an absence of fifteen months, his return is anxiously awaited by Deianeira, for the oracles have declared that the time has now come when he is to find rest and an end of his labours. This prediction Deianeira herself brings to a tragic fulfilment when, in her desire to hasten his coming and recapture his errant love, she unwittingly prepares disaster both for herself and her husband.

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