Yet there has never been a lack of more favourable estimates. ‘There is much both in the structure and plan, and in the style of the piece, calculated to excite suspicion.’ ‘Many critics have remarked that the introductory soliloquy of Deianeira, which is wholly uncalled-for, is very unlike the general character of Sophocles' prologues.’ ‘Although this poet's usual rules of art are observed on the whole, yet it is very superficially nowhere can we discern in it the profound mind of Sophocles.’ With regard to the prologue-the only passage which Schlegel specifies-some remarks will be found below, § 22.

All that he says of the Trachiniae is contained in one short paragraph, and the grounds of the condemnation are indicated only in vague terms. Schlegel, in his Lectures on Dramatic Literature, goes further still he pronounces the piece unworthy of its reputed author, and wishes that the responsibility for it could be transferred from Sophocles to some feebler contemporary,-his son, for instance, the ‘frigid’ Iophon A. 375: ‘ein mit mässiger Kunst angelegtes und matt durchgeführtes Werk aus spätem Lebensalter.’. Bernhardy regards it as a mediocre production of declining age Bernhardy, Gk Lit. Dissen and Bergk refer the play to a period when the powers of Sophocles were not yet fully matured Dissen, Kleine Schriften, p.

It has been the fortune of the Trachiniae to provoke Divergent views of the Trachiniae.

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