Suppliant Women
Euripides
96 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 019504553X
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Language: English
Publish: February 9, 1995
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This translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides’ ‘Suppliant Women’. Torn between the mothers’ lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures the competing poles of the human psyche.