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==== Sophocles ==== [[Sophocles]] wrote an ''Inachos'', probably a [[satyr play]], which survives only in some [[papyrus]] fragments found at [[Oxyrhyncus]] and [[Tebtunis]], [[Egypt]];<ref>[[James Adam (classicist)|James Adam]]. ''[[Republic (Plato)|The Republic of Plato]] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0094:book=2:section=381D&highlight=inachus Book 2.381D]''</ref> in it Inachos is reduced from magnificence to misery through the unrequited love of Zeus<ref>Perhaps Chthonic Zeus, Zeus-Plouton, Richard Seaford suggests (Richard Seaford, "Black Zeus in Sophocles' ''Inachos''" ''The Classical Quarterly'' New Series, '''30'''.1 (1980), pp. 23-29.</ref> for his daughter [[Io (mythology)|Io]]. [[Hermes]] wears the cap of darkness, rendering him invisible, but plays the ''[[aulos]]'', to the mystification of the [[satyr]]s; [[Argus (king of Argos)|Argos]] and [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]], as a messenger of [[Hera]] both appear, a "stranger" turns Io into a heifer at the touch of a hand, and at the end, apparently, the satyrs are freed from their bondage, to become shepherds of Inachos.<ref>''Die Netzfischer des Aischylos und der Inachos des Sophokles'' (Munich: Beck) 1938.</ref> An additional papyrus fragment of Sophocles' ''Inachos'' was published in 1960.<ref>Rudolph Pfeiffer, ''Ein neues Inachos-Fragment des Sophokles'' (Munich:Beck) 1958; R.J. Carden, ''The Papyrus Fragments of Sophocles'' (de Gruyter) 1974.</ref>
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