# Nurse — The Trachiniae character guide

> Nurse in The Trachiniae by Sophocles.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Nurse Deianira

**First appearance:** 0002-the-trachiniae

## Who they are

Deianira's trusted attendant, whose plainspoken counsel—that a slave's words may breathe a free spirit—sets the play's search in motion.

## Relationships

### [Hyllus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_trachiniae_se/characters/hyllus)

_social_

The Nurse is a trusted household servant who informs Hyllus of Deianira's distress and suicide.

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