num_pages: 96
description: This translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' 'Suppliant Women'. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures the competing poles of the human psyche.
language: English
title: Suppliant Women
titlecomplete: Suppliant Women
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Plays, Ancient, Greece, Poetry, Literature, Mythology, Fiction
ratings_count: 665
publisher: Oxford University Press