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Aeschylus: Suppliant WomenAris & Phillips Classical Texts Aeschylus 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

its history

Amara knows they are safest while she is far away

grammatical forms

relating them both to the philosopher's larger ideas and to other Greek views of the subject

there is also a substantial chapter on the rich reception of the play in modern literature as well as a chapter on the Greek original

he stamped his mark upon it: indignation

Στα δεξιά του κάθισε μια χαριτωμένη νεαρή γυναίκα

accompanied by sophisticated literary discussion of the poems

the war is over

Γκρούφαλο

with prolixity and obscurity

Time is the best killer