Aeschylus: Suppliant Women

ISBN: 9781908343789 出版年：2013 页码：379 Bowen, A J Liverpool University Press

Aeschylus' Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs - tokens of supplication - arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus.