One play about this character ends with him being carried to a funeral pyre on Mt. Oeta.
One play about this character ends with him being carried to a funeral pyre on Mt. Oeta. This character commands Hyllus to marry Iole in Sophocles' Trachiniae, which focuses on him. A play named for this character's children features the self-sacrifice of Macaria, and depicts members of his family seeking shelter at Marathon. This character is left behind on the island of the Mysians in the Argonautika. In a Euripides play named for this character, he kills Lycus in Thebes because of his lust for Megara. In Aristophanes' The Frogs, he is visited in the underworld by a badly disguised god and the slave Xanthias. For 10 points, name this frequent character in classical drama, who in the Trachiniae is mistakenly killed with a poisoned robe by his wife Deianira.
One play about this character ends with him being carried to a funeral pyre on Mt. Oeta.
Heracles [or Hercules]