Talk:Children of Heracles

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Image
The info box needs an image relevant to the play. I couldn't find one, so I just a Euripides statue for the time being. - Ravenous 16:40, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Setting of the play
I removed the following claim from the article:


 * The play begins at the altar of Zeus at Athens (N.B. Not Marathon, as generally assumed).

This had been tagged "citation needed" in May 2020, with the comment


 * nothing here demonstrates that the location is Athens rather than Marathon (or anywhere else); nothing here demonstrates that anyone has "generally assumed" anything

The play opens with a speech by Iolaus, who says (in the David Kovacs translation, via the Perseus Digital Library):


 * Since we have been banished from all the rest of Greece, we have come to Marathon and the land that borders it and are sitting at the altars of the gods supplicating for help.

At line 80, the chorus enters and asks Iolaus:


 * But you, old sir, from what land have you come to this people who dwell together in four cities?

The "four cities" being the Tetrapolis of Marathon, Probalinthus, Tricorythus, and Oenoe. Given these passages from the play, translators and editors have understandably taken the location to be Marathon. For example, Kovacs writes "The skene represents the temple of Zeus Agoraios in Marathon"; Coleridge writes "Scene: Before the altar and temple of Zeus at Marathon", and so on. If there is an alternative theory, then it can be added to the article once a citation has been provided. Gdr 21:29, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

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