Suppliants
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
One of the oldest surviving plays in Western literature, Suppliants presents a gripping drama of desperation, divine law, and political power — the fifty daughters of Danaus, the Danaids, flee Egypt to escape forced marriage to their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, and seek sanctuary in the city of Argos. Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, constructs a tense confrontation between the suppliant women, the Argive king Pelasgus, and the pursuing Egyptians, forcing a reckoning between mortal authority and the sacred obligations owed to those who seek refuge under the protection of the gods. Janet Lembke's translation brings the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus's choral verse into vivid, accessible English, preserving the ritualistic power and lyrical intensity of the original Greek. Suppliants endures as a profound meditation on asylum, sovereignty, and the rights of the vulnerable — questions as urgent today as they were in fifth-century Athens.
Author: Aeschylus
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Oxford University Press
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
One of the oldest surviving plays in Western literature, Suppliants presents a gripping drama of desperation, divine law, and political power — the fifty daughters of Danaus, the Danaids, flee Egypt to escape forced marriage to their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, and seek sanctuary in the city of Argos. Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, constructs a tense confrontation between the suppliant women, the Argive king Pelasgus, and the pursuing Egyptians, forcing a reckoning between mortal authority and the sacred obligations owed to those who seek refuge under the protection of the gods. Janet Lembke's translation brings the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus's choral verse into vivid, accessible English, preserving the ritualistic power and lyrical intensity of the original Greek. Suppliants endures as a profound meditation on asylum, sovereignty, and the rights of the vulnerable — questions as urgent today as they were in fifth-century Athens.