Aeschylus : Suppliants / Thalia Papadopoulou.

Aeschylus' 'Suppliants' dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. It was long considered to be the earliest surviving tragedy. Even after the mid-20th century, when...

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Main Author: Papadopoulou, Thalia, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London [England] ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
Series:Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.
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