A friend in California shared this observation of Anne Carson's (author of Eros the Bittersweet   and translator of Sappho ): ...

Before we turn, as Sophocles' Women of Trachis turns, from Deianira to the dying Heracles, here's a discussion of Deianira that r...

Here's an odd example of unexpected symmetry in The Women of Trachis -- some might say it's a stretch, but bear in mind, the materi...

Women of Trachis 458-59 : τὸ μὴ πυθέσθαι , τοῦτό μ᾽ ἀλγύνειεν ἄν : τὸ δ᾽ εἰδέναι τί δεινόν ; it is not learning the tr...

Ovid's letter from Deianira to Hercules ( Heroides #9 ) recounts the standard list of the hero's mighty deeds: . . . of enormous ...

Next time, we'll pause our reading of Sophocles' Women of Trachis to have a look at Deianira's letter to Heracles from O...

A slender volume by a close reader. Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet culls superb lines from the entire corpus of Greek literature o...

He to whom flickering Night, despoiled of shining armor  gives birth and lays down to sleep ablaze,  Sun, Sun, I ask  that you proc...