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A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave. Step swift thereto, And in your left hands hold with reverence The white-crowned wands of suppliance, the sign Beloved of Zeus, compassion's lord, and speak To those that question you, words meek and low... Read Full Overview

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation... Read Full Overview

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation... Read Full Overview

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Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven... Read Full Overview

If we help, we invite trouble. If we don't, we bring shame. Fifty women board a boat in North Africa. They flee across the Mediterranean, leaving everything behind. They are escaping forced marriage in their home and seeking asylum in Greece. Written 2,500 years ago, The Suppliant... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The Suppliants is a Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE. The play centers around a group of fifty women, known as the Danaids, who have fled from Egypt to Argos seeking refuge from forced marriage to their cousins. The king of Argos, Pelasgus, is hesitant... Read Full Overview

Les Suppliantes brosse l'histoire lyrique de cinquante malheureuses filles de Danaos qui, pour echapper au mariage force avec leurs cousins egyptiens, trouvent refuge dans le sanctuaire d'Hera en Argolide. Par leur derobade et le sang du meurtre des pretendants, les suppliantes... Read Full Overview

Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven... Read Full Overview

L'ouverture de la trag die par la parodos chorale au lieu d'un prologue dialogu n'est plus une trace d'archa sme; elle correspond une intention dramatique d lib r e. Dans les Perses, l'introduction chorale cr e l'atmosph re. Dans les suppliantes le choeur est le personnage... Read Full Overview

Aischylos: Die Schutzflehenden Vollst ndige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: John William Waterhouse, Die Danaiden, 1903. Gesetzt aus der Minion... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview