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Greek Mythology and Religion

The Phoenician Women

by Euripides

Euripides' crowded drama of the war between Oedipus' sons, named after its chorus of Phoenician women stranded at Thebes. It includes the self-sacrifice of Menoeceus and keeps Jocasta alive until the brothers' deaths.

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