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Suppliants / Euripides ; translated by Kenneth McLeish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Euripides, author.
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Theseus (Greek mythology)--Drama.
- Theseus (Greek mythology).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury, [2013]
- Summary:
- The haunting spectre of unburied corpses begins the action of 'Suppliants'. Aithra, mother of the king of Athens, Theseus, pleads with her son to exhort Thebes to release the bodies of the sons of Athens killed in Thebes, hired by Polyneikes to fight in the post-Oedipal era of Theban civil war. Theseus agrees to the request, but only after ascertaining that it is the democratic will of the people of Athens that he should make this plea to the Thebans. The Thebans, for their part, refuse, mocking Athenian democratic principles along the way. A battle between the two cities erupts; this time, however, Theseus fights only to gain that which his mandate had sought: the return of the bodies for their holy rites.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: in Plays six. London: Methuen Drama, 1997.
- Translated from the Ancient Greek.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 1048386593
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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