Trachis
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Heracleidae
A city cited by Iolaus, contrasted with Athens, as a place where suppliants of Heracles' family were once forcibly driven from an altar.
nor that Achaean town, whence thou, defying justice, but boasting of the might of Argos in the very words thou now art using, didst drive the suppliants from their station at the altar.
The Histories
A town near Thermopylae to which the Locrians and Phocians marched to join the Greek defense.
When they heard this, the Locrians and Phocians marched to Trachis to help.
Shield of Heracles
City ruled by Ceyx, Heracles's declared destination both before and after the duel with Cycnus.
But the son of Alcmena and glorious Iolaus stripped the fine armour off Cycnus' shoulders and went, and their swift horses carried them straight to the city of Trachis.
It is to Trachis I am driving on, to Ceyx the king, who is the first in Trachis for power and for honor, and that you yourself know well, for you have his daughter dark-eyed Themistinoe to wife.