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Snake oil salesmen : snake imagery and the sophistic movement in Sophocles' Trachiniae
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)"In the Trachiniae, Sophocles plays on the audience's expectations of a murderous Deianeira to demonstrate the dangers of misinformation. He subverts the traditional role of the centaur Cheiron as a healer and teacher in ...