Aeschylus: Suppliant Women by Aeschylus PAPERBACK 9781908343345

Aeschylus: Suppliant Women\nby Aeschylus\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Aeschylus\nTitle: Aeschylus: Suppliant Women\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ancient, classical and medieval texts\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2013\nISBN-13: 9781908343345\nISBN-10: 1908343346\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAeschylus 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 to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with son.