Euripides: Suppliant Women

by Ian C. Storey

Euripides' "Suppliant Women" is an unfairly neglected master work by the most controversial of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece. It dramatises the story of one of the proudest moments in Athenian mythical history: the intervention of Theseus in support of international law to force the burial of the Argives who were killed during their attack on Thebes. But Euripides adds new characters to the story and presents the myth in a different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071563626X
• ISBN13: 9780715636268
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.4"