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Sophoclean Roots Pre-performance talk for The Wife of Heracles

Sophoclean Roots Pre-performance talk for The Wife of Heracles. Dr Sue Hamstead Department of Classics University of Leeds. The Theatre of Dionysus. Acropolis, Athens Theatre of Dionysus bottom left. Theatre at Epidauros. Hyllus: For you know that the hearts of the callous gods

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Sophoclean Roots Pre-performance talk for The Wife of Heracles

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  1. Sophoclean RootsPre-performance talk for The Wife of Heracles Dr Sue Hamstead Department of Classics University of Leeds

  2. The Theatre of Dionysus

  3. Acropolis, Athens Theatre of Dionysus bottom left

  4. Theatre at Epidauros

  5. Hyllus: For you know that the hearts of the callous gods Feel nothing in all these sorry events. They beget their sons and are called our fathers, Yet look down calmly on our great pain. Sophocles Women of Trachis 1266-9

  6. First of all, if it is the virtue of a man you are after, it is easy to see that the virtue of a man consists in managing the city’s affairs capably, and so that he will help his friends and harm his enemies while taking care to come to no harm himself. Or if you want a woman’s virtue, that is easily described. She must manage the household well, looking after its contents and being obedient to her husband. Plato Meno 71e

  7. Heracles attacks Nessus as he tries to rape Deianira Attic black-figure hydria, c. 560-40 BCE, (Louvre, Paris).

  8. Heracles rescues Deianeira from Nessus Attic black-figure amphora, of Tyrrhenian type, from Vulci, c. 540 BCE (Munich).

  9. Nessus and Deianeira Attic red-figure cup interior by the Ambrosios Painter, c. 520 BCE (British Museum)

  10. Heracles fighting Achelous Athenian red-figure krater, C5 BCE (Louvre, Paris)

  11. Deianeira: We did have children, but Heracles rarely saw them, Like a farmer who only visits a distant field At seed-time and harvest. Sophocles Women of Trachis 31-3

  12. Deianeira: Those ill-starred prisoners, here in a foreign land, Exiles who’ve lost their fathers and lost their homes, The daughters of free men, maybe, but now condemned To a life as slaves. Sophocles Women of Trachis 299-302

  13. Sophoclean RootsPre-performance talk for The Wife of Heracles Dr Sue Hamstead Department of Classics University of Leeds

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