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HERACLES

by Euripides translated by E. P. Coleridge

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CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

AMPHITRYON, husband of Alcmena, the mother of
HERACLES

MEGARA, wife of HERACLES, daughter of Creon

LYCUS, unlawful King of Thebes

IRIS

MADNESS

MESSENGER

HERACLES, son of Zeus and Alcmena


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THESEUS, King of Athens

CHORUS OF OLD MEN OF THEBES

Sons of HERACLES, guards, attendants

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HERACLES

HERACLES

(SCENE:-Before the palace of HERACLES at
Thebes. Nearby stands the altar of Zeus, on the steps of
which are now seated AMPHITRYON, MEGARA and
her sons by HERACLES. They are seeking refuge at the
altar.)

AMPHITRYON
WHAT mortal hath not heard of him who shared a
wife with Zeus,Amphitryon of Argos, whom on a day
Alcaeus, son of Perseus begat,Amphitryon the father of
Heracles? He it was dwelt here in Thebes,where from the
sowing of the dragon's teeth grew up a crop of earth-born
giants; for of these Ares saved a scanty band, and their

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children's children people the city of Cadmus. Hence
sprung Creon, son of Menoeceus, king of this land; and
Creon became the father of this lady Megara, whom once
all Cadmus' race escorted with the glad music of lutes at
her wedding, in the day that Heracles, illustrious chief, led
her to my halls. Now he, my son, left Thebes where I was
settled, left his wife Megara and her kin, eager to make his
home in Argolis, in that walled town which the Cyclopes
built, whence I am exiled for the slaying of Electryon; so
he, wishing to lighten my affliction and to find a home in
his own land, did offer Eurystheus a mighty price for my
recall, even to free the world of savage monsters, whether
it was that Hera goaded him to submit to this, or that fate
was leagued against him. Divers are the toils he hath
plished, and last of all hath he passed