Talk:Children of Heracles

Theatre High‑importance

	Theatre portal This article is part of WikiProject Theatre, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of theatre on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.TheatreWikipedia:WikiProject TheatreTemplate:WikiProject TheatreTheatre articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Greece High‑importance

	Greece portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Greece, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Greece on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GreeceWikipedia:WikiProject GreeceTemplate:WikiProject GreeceGreek articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Classical Greece and Rome High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome, a group of contributors interested in Wikipedia's articles on classics. If you would like to join the WikiProject or learn how to contribute, please see our project page. If you need assistance from a classicist, please see our talk page.Classical Greece and RomeWikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeTemplate:WikiProject Classical Greece and RomeClassical Greece and Rome articles
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): RaineRules.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 17:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Image

The info box needs an image relevant to the play. I couldn't find one, so I just a Euripides statue for the time being. - Ravenous 16:40, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Setting of the play

I removed the following claim from the article:

The play begins at the altar of Zeus at Athens (N.B. Not Marathon, as generally assumed).

This had been tagged "citation needed" in May 2020, with the comment

nothing here demonstrates that the location is Athens rather than Marathon (or anywhere else); nothing here demonstrates that anyone has "generally assumed" anything

The play opens with a speech by Iolaus, who says (in the David Kovacs translation, via the Perseus Digital Library):

Since we have been banished from all the rest of Greece, we have come to Marathon and the land that borders it and are sitting at the altars of the gods supplicating for help.

At line 80, the chorus enters and asks Iolaus:

But you, old sir, from what land have you come to this people who dwell together in four cities?

The "four cities" being the Tetrapolis of Marathon, Probalinthus, Tricorythus, and Oenoe. Given these passages from the play, translators and editors have understandably taken the location to be Marathon. For example, Kovacs writes "The skene represents the temple of Zeus Agoraios in Marathon"; Coleridge writes "Scene: Before the altar and temple of Zeus at Marathon", and so on. If there is an alternative theory, then it can be added to the article once a citation has been provided. Gdr 21:29, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Ancient Greece

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 28 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Bautiwindhausen (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Sarah3707, Ohebert19.

— Assignment last updated by Sarah3707 (talk) 15:40, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: History of Ancient Greece

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 2 April 2024 and 14 June 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Optimistic Learner (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Old Crooked leg, JurassicDad35.

— Assignment last updated by Johnstoncl (talk) 23:45, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]