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464<br />

Introduction<br />

ferings of the dying Heracles constitute a serious defect in the play. Despite<br />

the stoutest efforts of enthusiastic Sophoclean apologists, Heracles<br />

remains a brutal and self-centred character, for whom there can be little<br />

sympathy. Sophocles in the latter part of the play seems to have become<br />

so preoccupied with presenting Heracles' physical agony that he loses<br />

sight of Deianeira, his truly great tragic creation, and the artistic integrity<br />

of the whole piece is correspondingly impaired.

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