Faulty examination responses regarding a play by this author inspired an essay on misunderstanding that play by E.R. Dodds. In one of this author's plays, a messenger reveals the motivations behind another character's assault on Oechalia, contradicting the report of the herald Lichas. At the end of that play by this man, Hyllas is ordered to marry Iole at the end of that play by a dying Heracles, who was accidentally poisoned by Deianeira. This author of (*) Women of Trachis wrote a play that opens with the return of an embassy to the Oracle of Delphi regarding a plague. That play's protagonis
Faulty examination responses regarding a play by this author inspired an essay on misunderstanding that play by E.R. Dodds. In one of this author's plays, a messenger reveals the motivations behind another character's assault on Oechalia, contradicting the report of the herald Lichas. At the end of that play by this man, Hyllas is ordered to marry Iole at the end of that play by a dying Heracles, who was accidentally poisoned by Deianeira. This author of (*) Women of Trachis wrote a play that opens with the return of an embassy to the Oracle of Delphi regarding a plague. That play's protagonist berates Tiresias for refusing to speak, and later learns that he was abandoned on Mount Cithaeron, prompting him to blind himself on learning of his true relation to Laius and Jocasta. For 10 points, name this Greek tragedian whose three "Theban plays" include Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
Faulty examination responses regarding a play by this author inspired an essay on misunderstanding that play by E.R. Dodds.
Sophocles