In Lycophron's Alexandra, Dardanus was said to wed Arisba from “ Crete's royal house ”.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

* Online text: Lycophron's Alexandra translated by A. W. Mair, 1921

I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.

`` The great Greek tragedies are concerned with man against Fate, not man against man for the prize of a woman's body.

By such innocent actions are human tragedies sometimes set in motion.

However, there are some Jews, particularly the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who do hold public readings of the Book of Job on the Tisha B ' Av fast ( a day of mourning over the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies ).

David is also viewed as a tragic figure ; his acquisition of Bathsheba, and the loss of his son are viewed as his central tragedies.

: Then arose the famous murderer, Robert Hood, as well as Little John, together with their accomplices from among the disinherited, whom the foolish populace are so inordinately fond of celebrating both in tragedies and comedies, and about whom they are delighted to hear the jesters and minstrels sing above all other ballads.

Variations on the ekkyklêma are used in tragedies and other forms to this day, as writers still find it a useful and often powerful device for showing the consequences of extreme human actions.

Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabula crepidata ( tragedies adapted from Greek originals ); his Phaedra, for example, was based on Euripides ' Hippolytus.

In the English language, the most famous and most successful tragedies are those of William Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries.

His best-known plays are the tragedies The Changeling ( written with William Rowley ) and Women Beware Women, and the cynically satirical city comedy A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.

The theological virtues are disrupted in daily tragedies, highlighting the episode Caridad.

They are not all based on Greek tragedies, they have a five act form and differ in many respects from extant Attic drama, and whilst the influence of Euripides on some of these works is considerable, so is the influence of Virgil and Ovid.

The earliest known accounts of the death of Iphigenia are included in Euripides ' Iphigenia at Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris, both Athenian tragedies of the fifth century BCE set in the Heroic Age.

* Achaeus of Eretria ( born 484 BC ), tragic poet who wrote forty-five tragedies, some of whose titles are preserved

We can bring it forth as a frightening moment, as an abyss that opens suddenly ; indeed, many of Shakespeare's tragedies are already really comedies out of which the tragic arises.

His tragedies are a stultification of the classical method ; their Alexandrine couplets are exceedingly harsh ; their characters are marionettes.

It was commonly attributed to Homer, as by Aristotle ( Poetics 13. 92 ): " His Margites indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies "; but the work, among a mixed genre of works loosely labelled " Homerica " in Antiquity, was more reasonably attributed to Pigres, a Greek poet of Halicarnassus, in the massive medieval Greek encyclopedia called Suda.

Others are tragedies about schism, politically motivated murder, and personal vendettas in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, but not everyone necessarily likes everyone else very much.

The three types that seem most often studied today are the histories, the comedies, and the tragedies.

Meanwhile, faced with the daily tragedies of an irrationally structured world, radical artists everywhere are bound to persevere in their oppositional work.

" This reality was noted by playwright Oscar Wilde, who said: " One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Perdues protagonist Lucien de Rubempré ….

He is said to have left the military and returned to Paris to pursue literature, producing tragedies cast in the orthodox classical mode.

Writing in People magazine in 1995, Craig Tomashoff said the cancellation of Brisco was " one of the tragedies going into 1994 – 1995 TV season ".

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

Achaeus of Eretria (; born 484 BC in Euboea ) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Moirai ( Fates ), Momus, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous, and Theseus.

When Socrates and Phaedrus proceed to recount the various tools of speechmaking as written down by the great orators of the past, starting with the " Preamble " and the " Statement Facts " and concluding with the " Recapitulation ", Socrates states that the fabric seems a little threadbare. He goes on to compare one with only knowledge of these tools to a doctor who knows how to raise and lower a body's temperature but does not know when it is good or bad to do so, stating that one who has simply read a book or came across some potions knows nothing of the art. One who knows how to compose the longest passages on trivial topics or the briefest passages on topics of great importance is similar, when he claims that to teach this is to impart the knowledge of composing tragedies ; if one were to claim to have mastered harmony after learning the lowest and highest notes on the lyre, a musician would say that this knowledge is what one must learn before one masters harmony, but it is not the knowledge of harmony itself. This, then, is what must be said to those who attempt to teach the art of rhetoric through " Preambles " and " Recapitulations "; they are ignorant of dialectic, and teach only what is necessary to learn as preliminaries.

British historian John Keegan, critical of the dry, featureless prose, said " the compilers ... have achieved the remarkable feat of writing an exhaustive account of one of the world's greatest tragedies without the display of any emotion at all.

O ' Brien won the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Goodermote Humanitarian Award in 2008 for her reporting of Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami " Ms. O ’ Brien has shown the world tragedies of human conflict, natural disasters, chronic and infectious diseases ," said Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He was also linked to several literary figures such as: Zopyrus of Clazomenae ; Alexander Aetolus and Homerus, whom he is said to have assisted in the composition of their tragedies ; and Aratus, whom he is said to have taught.

His rival, Vijay Merchant said that the captaincy prevented Hazare from becoming India's finest batsman: " It was one of the tragedies of cricket.

" Lawford said that he had returned to Cuba six times in an effort to do just that " but as you know we have an embargo against Cuba, which is one of the greatest foreign policy tragedies in the history of the United States.

The group members have suffered several setbacks and tragedies over the years brought on by drug abuse: Bobby DeBarge died at a hospice in Grand Rapids after contracting AIDS after years of heroin addiction, Tommy DeBarge, who also suffered drug addiction, is under kidney dialysis but has nonetheless continued to perform, sometimes with surviving members of Switch and with his family members, Randy DeBarge and Mark DeBarge are said to have " incurable diseases " according to their mother.

" I don't understand Shakespeare's sonnets at all, but I follow his tragedies ," he said.

It is said that this play was the initiator of the style for many “ Elizabethan revenge tragedies, most notably Hamlet ”.

" We need to concentrate more than ever on identifying the reasons for the upheavals of 1987 and 2000 and making sure that such tragedies never happen again ," Qarase said at a meeting of the National Advisory Council, a think-tank representing Fiji's ethnic communities, which he chairs.

The Prince said " It's been one of the things that many of us have dreaded for a long time and now they have finally got through ," and added, " What I can never get over is the incredible resilience of the British people who have set us all a fantastic example of how to react to these kinds of tragedies.

Describing the song in an interview to Marisa Lira, of the newspaper Diário de Notícias, Barroso said that he wanted to " free the samba away from the tragedies of life, of the sensual scenario already so explored ".

In 2005, she took time out from show business to moonlight as a shop assistant, wrapping crystal and swiping credit cards, so as to take her mind off personal tragedies such as the death of her mother: " I am just taking some time out and doing some of my favourite things which are being around beautiful objects and talking to people ," she said.

At a memorial for Stalin's victims, Putin said that while Russians should " keep alive the memory of tragedies of the past, we should focus on all that is best in the country.