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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;The Suppliants&#039;&#039;&#039; (also known as The Suppliant Women) <a href="/index.php?title=423_BC&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="423 BC (page does not exist)">423 BC</a>, is an ancient Greek play by <a href="/index.php/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>. ==Background== After <a href="/index.php/Oedipus" title="Oedipus">Oedipus</a> leaves <a href="/index.php/Thebes" title="Thebes">Thebes</a>, his sons fight for co...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;The Suppliants&#039;&#039;&#039; (also known as The Suppliant Women) [[423 BC]], is an ancient Greek play by [[Euripides]]. <br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> <br /> After [[Oedipus]] leaves [[Thebes]], his sons fight for control of its throne. [[Polyneices]] lays siege to Thebes against his brother [[Eteocles]]. Polyneices has married the daughter of Adrastus, King of [[Argos]]. And so Polyneices has on his side the Argive army, leaders of which help form the [[Seven Against Thebes]]. The invaders lose the battle, and Polyneices and Eteocles both die. [[Creon]] takes power in Thebes and decrees the invaders are not to be buried. The mothers of the dead seek someone to help reverse this, so their sons can be buried.<br /> <br /> ==Story==<br /> <br /> The play begins with Adrastus and the Argive mothers seeking help from Aithra and her son [[Theseus]] within the Temple of [[Demeter]]. Theseus feels pity for them, and with the consent of the Athenian people decides to help. After it has become clear that Creon will not give up the bodies, the Athenian army must take them by force. In the end, the dead are finally laid to rest. <br /> <br /> The same story had been mentioned years earlier in book 9 of &#039;&#039;[[Histories (Herodotus)|The History]]&#039;&#039; by [[Herodotus]], in which the Athenians claimed the event as an example of their history of bravery.<br /> <br /> ==Unburied Dead==<br /> <br /> Funeral rites are very important to people in ancient Greek literature. The [[Iliad]] contains scenes of people fighting over corpses, such as that of [[Patroclus]]. People are willing to fight and risk dying to obtain the bodies of the dead. &#039;&#039;The Suppliants&#039;&#039; takes this concept even farther, showing a whole city willing to wage war to retrieve the bodies of these strangers. The theme of not allowing the bodies of the dead to be buried occurs many times throughout ancient Greek literature. Examples include the body of [[Hector]] as portrayed in the Iliad, the body of [[Telamonian Aias|Ajax]] as portrayed in the play [[Ajax (Sophocles)|Ajax]] by [[Sophocles]], and the children of [[Niobe]]. For what happens to the body of [[Polyneices]], see the play [[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]] by Sophocles.<br /> <br /> ==Translations==<br /> *Edward P. Coleridge, 1891 - prose: [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/e/euripides/suppliants/ full text]<br /> *Arthur S. Way, 1912 - verse<br /> *Frank Jones, 1958 - verse<br /> <br /> {{Credit wikipedia}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Ancient Greek plays|Suppliants]]</div>

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