Aeschylusas Suppliant Women: The Tragedy of Immigration

by Geoffrey W. Bakewell

This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter between newcomers and natives. Some scholars read Suppliant Women as modeling successful social integration, but Geoffrey W. Bakewell argues that the play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029929174X
• ISBN13: 9780299291747
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"