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Heracles is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides that was first performed 416 BC . 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 . The action of the play occurs after Heracles performed the 12 labours . Temporarily driven mad by the goddess Hera, Heracles kills his wife Megara and children . When he recovers his reason, he fights suicidal despair and then is taken to spend an honourable retirement at Athens .