Euripides. Children of Heracles
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- His The children of Heracles, 1981.
- His The Heracleidae, 2002.
- Heraclidae, 1972:p. 1 (Εὐριπίδου Ἡρακλειδῶν ὑπόθεσις)
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Children of Heracles (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλεῖδαι, Hērakleidai; also translated as Herakles' Children and Heraclidae) is an Athenian tragedy written by Euripides. In the year of 430 B.C., Children of Heracles was performed. It follows the children of Heracles (known as the Heracleidae) as they seek protection from Eurystheus. It is the first of two surviving tragedies by Euripides where the children of Heracles are suppliants (the second being Heracles).
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