“Heracles” or “The Madness of Heracles” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It describes the frenzy of divinely induced madness of the Greek hero Heracles which led him to kill his own wife and children. It was written around 416 BCE or earlier, the second of two surviving plays by Euripides concerning the family of Heracles (the first being the “Heraclidae”), and was first produced at the Dionysia festival of Athens, although it did not win any prize.

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