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100 0 $aEuripides,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSuppliants /$cEuripides ; translated by Kenneth McLeish.
264 1 $a[London] :$bBloomsbury,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $a1 online resource
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$2rdacarrier
500 $aPreviously issued in print: in Plays six. London: Methuen Drama, 1997.
500 $aTranslated from the Ancient Greek.
520 8 $aThe haunting spectre of unburied corpses begins the action of 'Suppliants'. Aithra, mother of the king of Athens, Theseus, pleads with her son to exhort Thebes to release the bodies of the sons of Athens killed in Thebes, hired by Polyneikes to fight in the post-Oedipal era of Theban civil war. Theseus agrees to the request, but only after ascertaining that it is the democratic will of the people of Athens that he should make this plea to the Thebans. The Thebans, for their part, refuse, mocking Athenian democratic principles along the way. A battle between the two cities erupts; this time, however, Theseus fights only to gain that which his mandate had sought: the return of the bodies for their holy rites.
588 $aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2013).
600 00 $aTheseus,$cKing of Athens$vDrama.
700 1 $aMcLeish, Kenneth,$d1940-1997,$etranslator.
700 0 $aEuripides.$tPlays six.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio11697380$3Drama online
852 8 $blweb$hEBOOKS