Dirce

He would visit Blake at home, get work for him, keep him company, take him to the theater (Sheridan's Pizarro, a 'New Grand Serious Opera' called Dirce, or the Fatal Urn, and Oedipus in the version by Dryden and Nat Lee), and introduce him to his circle of young artists, some of whom became his disciples.

In Samuel Palmer's Garden Fenton, James 2006

To dear Dirce and Áurea Cabrera for their affection for my works.

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

Ani Maldjian as Dirce above was the spoiled, erotically charged, pill-popping daughter of Roberto Gomez's blustery king, Creon.

Rodney Punt: Medea Takes Revenge in an Abandoned Warehouse Rodney Punt 2011

To dear Dirce and Áurea Cabrera for their affection for my works.

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

To dear Dirce and Áurea Cabrera for their affection for my works.

Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

There's a Greek myth about the woman Dirce who was tied to a bull (possibly its horns) and dragged around until she was killed (or impaled).

Too Cruel? Bardiac 2009

Deck thee with garlands, O Ismenus! break forth into dancing, ye paved streets of our seven-gated city! come Dirce, fount of waters fair; and joined with her ye daughters of Asopus, come from your father's waves to add your maiden voices to our hymn, the victor's prize that Heracles hath won.

Heracles 2008

Hail! awful cavern of the serpent, and the god's outlook on the hills, and sacred mount by snow-storms lashed! would I were now circling in the dance of the deathless god, free from wild alarms, having left Dirce ere this for the vales of Phoebus at the centre of the world!

The Phoenissae 2008

(After a slight pause) No, there is no citizen approaching the palace; so mount the ancient cedar steps, and view the plains that skirt Ismenus and the fount of Dirce to see the mighty host of foemen.

The Phoenissae 2008

Now there is an ancient legend amongst the race of Cadmus, that one Lycus in days gone by was husband to Dirce being king of this city with its seven towers, before that Amphion and Zethus, sons of Zeus, lords of the milk-white steeds, became rulers in the land.

Heracles 2008