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  • Supplication (redirect from Suppliant)
    Identification: the suppliant performs conventional gestures or words in order to identify himself. 3. Request: the suppliant states what his request...
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  • Look up suppliant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Suppliants may refer to: The Suppliants (Aeschylus) by Aeschylus, an ancient Greek play where...
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  • The Suppliant Maidens may refer to: The Suppliants (Aeschylus) by Aeschylus, an ancient Greek play where the Danaides seek protection from King Pelasgus...
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    The Suppliants (Ancient Greek: Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides; Latin: Supplices), also called The Suppliant Maidens, The Suppliant Women, or Supplices is a play...
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  • The Suppliant Women may refer to: The Suppliants (Aeschylus) by Aeschylus, an ancient Greek play where the Danaides seek protection from King Pelasgus...
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    The Suppliants (Ancient Greek: Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides; Latin Supplices), also called The Suppliant Women, first performed in 423 BC, is an ancient Greek...
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  • and the Danaïdes when they fled from Aegyptus. In Aeschylus' play The Suppliants the Danaïdes fleeing from Egypt seek asylum from King Pelasgus of Argos...
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  • Suppliant Women may refer to: The Suppliants (Aeschylus) by Aeschylus, an ancient Greek play in which the Danaides seek protection from King Pelasgus The...
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    to him have survived intact: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, the trilogy known as The Oresteia (the three tragedies Agamemnon, The...
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  • description. Supplication a persecutor; a suppliant; a power in authority, whose decision is doubtful. The suppliant appeals to the power in authority for...
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    p. 509. Euripides, The Suppliants 131–154. Euripides, The Suppliants 155–161. Kovacs 1998, pp. 5–6. Euripides, The Suppliants 925–927. Kovacs 1998, p...
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    The Royal Suppliants is a 1781 tragedy by John Delap. The original Drury Lane cast included William 'Gentleman' Smith as Acamas, John Bannister as Hyllus...
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    of Aphrodite. Aeschylus identifies her as the daughter of Aphrodite in Suppliant Women (Hiketides), but also describes her as the child of Ate in Agamemnon...
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  • Etymologicum Genuinum fr. 151 with a reference to Alcaeus, fr. 406 & Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 886 ff. Etymologicum Genuinum fr. 151 with a reference to Alcaeus...
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    of nature's works is known, in thee all judgment is absolved alone. No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage controul, no vows revoke the purpose of thy soul...
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  • have been an arbitrarily invented figure. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 340 ff Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 250 ff This article incorporates text from this...
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    parents, of hosts to guests, and of householders or city councils to suppliants—and to punish such crimes by hounding culprits relentlessly. The appearance...
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    his fifty daughters (the Danaids), as recalled in Aeschylus' play The Suppliants. The myth of Io must have been well known to Homer, who often calls Hermes...
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  • Papyri 1358 fr. 2 Euripides, Phoenissae 678; Oedipus 1.638–689; Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 48; Apollodorus, 2.1.3; Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.747–748; Hyginus,...
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  • prominently in the poetry of Pindar, and is a main character in Euripides' The Suppliants. His story was told by Diodorus Siculus, Hyginus, Statius, and Apollodorus...
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