Euripides’ Suppliants (vv. 381-597)

Authors

  • Evandro Luis Salvador Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP

Keywords:

Euripides, The Suplliants, Religion, Tragedy

Abstract

We present a translation and an interpretation of the second episode (vv. 381-597) in Euripides’Suppliants, performed in the Theater of Dionysus sometime between 424 and 416 B.C. The drama is composed of 1,234 verses and receives its title from the chorus, which is composed of elderly Argive women, wives of chiefs killed in the ill-fated expedition against Thebes. The women leave Argos in the direction of Demeter’s temple in Eleusis, to supplicate for their sacred right to recover the bodies of their dead sons (arbitrarily retained by the recently enthroned king of Thebes, Creon) and to give them a proper funeral. The work’s title, therefore, directs our attention to a religious theme.

Author Biography

Evandro Luis Salvador, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP

Doutor em Linguística pela UNICAMP, professor substituto de Literatura Grega na UNESP e pós-doutorando em Linguística pela mesma universidade, desenvolvendo pesquisa na área de tradução de tragédia grega.

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Published

2014-08-13

Issue

No. 33 (2014)

Section

Translations

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