- Heracles (Euripides)
Infobox_Play | name = Heracles
caption = The madness of Herakles byAsteas
writer =Euripides
chorus = Old Men of Thebes
characters =Amphitryon
MegaraLycus
Iris
MadnessHeracles Theseus
setting = Before the palace of Heracles at Thebes"Heracles" or "Hercules Furens" ( _el. Ηρακλής μαινόμενος / "Hēraklēs Mainomenos") is a play by
Euripides (c. 416 BC). WhileHeracles is in the underworld obtainingCerberus for one of his labors, his fatherAmphitryon , wifeMegara , and children are sentenced to death inThebes, Greece byLycus . Heracles arrives in time to save them, however the goddesses Iris and Madness (personified) cause him to kill his wife and children in a frenzy. It is the second of two surviving plays by Euripides where the family of Heracles are suppliants (the first being "Heraclidae"). It was first performed at the Great Dionysia festival and did not win any prize.Translations
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Edward P. Coleridge , 1891 - prose: [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Eur.+Her.+1 full text]
*Aurthur S. Way , 1912 - verse
*Hugh Owen Meredith , 1937 - verse
*William Arrowsmith , 1956 - verse
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