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The Suppliants (aeschylus)

The Suppliants

The Danaides by J.W. Waterhouse
Written byAeschylus
ChorusThe Danaides
CharactersDanaus
Pelasgus
Herald of Aegyptus
Attendants
Settingshore of Argos


The Suppliants (Greek "Hiketides", also translated as The Suppliant Maidens) is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC as the first play in a trilogy which included the lost plays The Egyptians and The Daughters of Danaus. It was once thought to be the earliest surviving play by Aeschylus due to the relatively anachronistic function of the chorus as the protagonist of the drama. However, recent evidence places it after The Persians as Aeschylus's second extant play.

Plot

The Danaides form the chorus and serve as the protagonists. They flee a forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. When the Danaides reach Argos, they entreat King Pelasgus to protect them. He refuses pending the decision of the Argive people, who decide in the favor of the Danaides. Danaus rejoices the outcome, and the Danaides praise the Greek gods. Almost immediately, a herald of the Egyptians comes to attempt to force the Danaides to return to their cousins for marriage. Pelasgus arrives, threatens the herald, and urges the Danaides to remain within the walls of Argos. The play ends with the Danaides retreating into the Argive walls, protected.

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Related contemporary works

A recent contemporary adaptation of this play is Charles Mee's "Big Love"

Plays by Aeschylus
The Persians | Seven Against Thebes | The Suppliants | Agamemnon | The Libation Bearers | The Eumenides | Prometheus Bound (spurious)
Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος, IPA: /ˈɛskələs/ or
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For the butterfly genus, see Danaus (genus).


Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper") was a Greek mythological character, twin brother of Aegyptus son of Achiroe and Belus, a mythical king of Egypt.
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For the butterfly genus, see Danaus (genus).


Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper") was a Greek mythological character, twin brother of Aegyptus son of Achiroe and Belus, a mythical king of Egypt.
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In Greek mythology, Pelasgus referred to several different people.
  1. One was the first king of Arcadia, the ancestor of the Pelasgians, whom Herodotus claimed were the oldest inhabitants of Greece. He was the son of Zeus and Niobe and the father of Lycaon with Meliboea.

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Aígyptos, usually Latinized as Aegyptus, in Greek ("supine goat"), descendant of the heifer maiden, Io, and the river-god Nilus, was a king in Egypt.[1] Aegyptos was the son of Belus and Achiroe, and father of fifty sons who were all but one murdered by the fifty
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Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος, IPA: /ˈɛskələs/ or
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5th century BC - 4th century BC
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Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states

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In tragic plays of ancient Greece, the chorus (choros) is believed to have grown out of the Greek dithyrambs and tragikon drama. The chorus offers a variety of background and summary information to help the audience follow the performance, commented on main themes, and
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.[1] It is derived from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek δράμα), derived from "to do" (Classical Greek
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Persians

Relief of Darius I of Persia
Written by Aeschylus
Chorus Persian Elders
Characters Atossa
Messenger
Ghost of Darius
Xerxes

The Persians (Πέρσαι
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play or stageplay, written by a playwright, or dramatist, is a form of literature, almost always consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for performance rather than reading.
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For the butterfly genus, see Danaus (genus).


Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper") was a Greek mythological character, twin brother of Aegyptus son of Achiroe and Belus, a mythical king of Egypt.
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In Greek mythology, Pelasgus referred to several different people.
  1. One was the first king of Arcadia, the ancestor of the Pelasgians, whom Herodotus claimed were the oldest inhabitants of Greece. He was the son of Zeus and Niobe and the father of Lycaon with Meliboea.

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For the butterfly genus, see Danaus (genus).


Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper") was a Greek mythological character, twin brother of Aegyptus son of Achiroe and Belus, a mythical king of Egypt.
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Charles L. Mee is an American playwright and author. He was born in Barrington, Illinois in 1938. He was stricken with polio in 1953, which he details in his 1999 memoir A Nearly Normal Life.
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Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος, IPA: /ˈɛskələs/ or
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Persians

Relief of Darius I of Persia
Written by Aeschylus
Chorus Persian Elders
Characters Atossa
Messenger
Ghost of Darius
Xerxes

The Persians (Πέρσαι
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Seven against Thebes

The Oath of the Seven Chiefs by Alfred Church
Written by Aeschylus
Chorus Theban Women
Characters Eteocles
Spy
Antigone
Ismene
Herald

Setting Citadel of Thebes

The Seven against Thebes
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Prometheus Bound

Vulcan Chaining Promethus by Dirck van Baburen
Written by Aeschylus
Chorus Oceanids
Characters Cratus
Bia
Hephaestus
Prometheus
Oceanus
Io
Hermes

Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragedy.
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