In the tragedy, Iolaus, Heracles ' old comrade, and his children, Macaria and her brothers and sisters have hidden from Eurystheus in Athens, which was ruled by King Demophon ; as the first scene makes clear, their expectation is that the blood relationship of the kings with Heracles and their father's past indebtedness to Theseus, will finally provide them sanctuary.

The letter was about their father's suicide and, in it, Arthur pointed to Johanna as being responsible for the tragedy, rumoured to be a suicide, saying that, whilst their father suffered ill in bed, abandoned to the care of an employee, Johanna amused herself in social reunions and gave her husband none of her time.

The final tragedy was the suicide of the youngest son, Nicholas who, some years after his father's death, returned to the family's home in London and leapt from the top floor of the five-storey building to his death.

In response to his father's tragedy, Yongzheng created a sophisticated procedure for choosing a successor.

Because of his size at the time, Norman couldn't help when he had the chance ( he was unable to lift his father's war-axe ), and thus blamed himself for the tragedy ; at his father's grave, he vowed to become the greatest warrior that ever lived ( cf.

This may have been due, in part, to his father's horseriding tragedy.

In 1933, tragedy struck the Vanderbilt family when his 26-year-old son, William Kissam III, was killed in an automobile accident in South Carolina while driving home to New York City from his father's Florida estate.

What they have objected to is the attempt of the Russians to make use of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death to turn the entire U.N. staff from the Secretary down into political agents of the respective countries from which they come.

The brief details of Mijbil's death lend depth to the story, give it an edge of ironic tragedy.

* Within a few years of Salieri's death in 1825, Alexander Pushkin wrote his " little tragedy " Mozart and Salieri ( 1831 ) as a dramatic study of the sin of envy.

Compiled in Iceland in the 13th century, but based on much older Old Norse poetry, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a great tragedy to the Æsir and a harbinger of Ragnarök.

The phrase " death of one man is a tragedy, death of a million is a statistic " is sometimes attributed to Stalin, but was actually made by the German writer and pacifist Erich Maria Remarque.

" The tragedy was compounded in 1995, when Cheyenne, suffering from lingering effects of a serious car accident and said to still be depressed over Drollet's death, committed suicide by hanging herself in Tahiti.

On 2 July 1990, a pilgrimage to Mecca ended in tragedy when the ventilation system failed in a crowded pedestrian tunnel and 1, 426 people were either suffocated or trampled to death.

The playwright ’ s apparent familiarity with the absurdity of humanity and both the comedy and tragedy that stem from this absurdity have inspired succeeding playwrights centuries after his death.

This battle was considered by the Muslims as little more than a skirmish, while the Battle of Toulouse ( 721 ), with at death toll of maybe tens of thousands, was mourned for centuries as a large scale tragedy by the Iberian Muslims.

His life was marred by tragedy, including the death of his first wife and his two eldest sons in separate accidents.

During the final shootout, when Judd and Westrum stand up to a trio of men, Judd is fatally wounded and his death serves as Westrum's salvation-a Catholic tragedy weaved from the Western genre.

The game is darker, dealing with death and tragedy in a manner not previously seen in the series, and has a sense of impending doom, as a large moon slowly descends upon the land of Termina.

:"... 27 January 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where a combined total of up to 1. 5 million Jews, Roma, Poles, Russians and prisoners of various other nationalities, and homosexuals, were murdered, is not only a major occasion for European citizens to remember and condemn the enormous horror and tragedy of the Holocaust, but also for addressing the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism, and especially anti-Semitic incidents, in Europe, and for learning anew the wider lessons about the dangers of victimising people on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion, social classification, politics or sexual orientation ...."

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.

He traced the evolution of tragedy from early rituals, through the joining of Apollonian and Dionysian forces, until its early " death " in the hands of Socrates.

It involves some elements of classical tragedy —" noble " characters and the audience's knowledge of Thomasina's impending death — but the predominant element is comedy, in the way that the characters interact with each other and their witty, epigrammatic dialogue.

The main tragedy during Little Women was the death of beloved Beth ; her “ self-sacrifice is ultimately the greatest in the novel.

However, in accepting his inevitable death, de Boeldieu takes comfort in the idea that " For a commoner, dying in a war is a tragedy.

* Octavia ( play ), a tragedy mistakenly attributed to the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger that dramatises Claudia Octavia's death

In the following battle between the forces of Athens and Eleusis, Erechtheus won the battle and slew Eumolpus, but then himself fell, struck down by Poseidon's trident ; according to fragments of Euripides ' tragedy Erechtheus. Poseidon avenged his son Eumolpus ' death by driving him into the earth with blows of his trident,

In Sophocles ' tragedy Antigone, Polynices ' story continues after his death.

And private tragedy became the chosen ground not of drama, but of the new, unfolding art of the novel.

But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the play became only comedy acted rather slowly.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

Both became major silent stars, in comedy and tragedy respectively.

Once the leader of a violent street gang, Yousaka became a born-again Christian after a personal tragedy and he changed his name to " David Qin " to reflect his new identity and honoring the young man he murdered.

" In any event, Shakespearian tragedy and Faustian mystique became of one type in his mind.

That led by Dull Knife ( mostly women, children and elders ) surrendered and were taken to Fort Robinson, where subsequent events became known as the Fort Robinson tragedy.

This became known as the Oath of Fëanor and, later, the cause for great tragedy on Middle-earth, particularly among his seven sons.

Diogenes Laërtius preserves several different accounts of this story ; one of them has Crates giving his money away to the citizens of Thebes, apparently after seeing the beggar king Telephus in a tragedy ; whereas another account has him placing his money in the hands of a banker, with the agreement that he should deliver it to his sons, unless they too became philosophers, in which case he should distribute it among the poor.

In the wake of the tragedy, Dov became vindictive towards everything and turned his back on the orthodox religion of his father.

Hearing of this tragedy, the citizens of Exeter gave money to set up what became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Brixham Lifeboat in 1866.

Upon the German Instrument of Surrender in May 1945, Yugoslav Partisans entered the region, killing numerous alleged collaborators in what became known as the Bleiburg tragedy.

In 1824 Wallack became stage manager at Drury Lane, and rose to the performance of secondary roles in tragedy.

This event later became known as the Armero tragedy — the deadliest lahar in recorded history.

Upon being approached by Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal at the Emperor Ferdinand's behest, he became one of the chief conspirators against Wallenstein, and after the tragedy of Eger was appointed to the command of the army which Wallenstein had formed and led.

The footage was played on national news, and butoh became more widely known in America through the tragedy.

The area that became known as Cupers Cove ( Cupids ) was chosen to great tragedy.

He endorsed the dictum that “ one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, until proved otherwise “ in his book ABC of Child Abuse and this became known as Meadow's Law and at one time was widely adopted by social workers and child protection agencies ( such as the NSPCC ) in Britain.

In the years after this tragedy, Custine became very pious.

He became part of the NRC team assembled to study the sinking of the Ocean Ranger oil rig in support of the Royal Commission investigation into that tragedy.

It is impossible, however, to know with certainty how these fertility rituals became the basis for tragedy and comedy.

To help the town and citizens recover from this tragedy, king Aleksander Jagiellończyk gave all the citizens a 10 year tax exemption from 1504 – 1514 In the 15th and 16th centuries Ropczyce became a major centre in the manufacture of canvas goods.