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Suppliants

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Suppliants, the first and only surviving play of a trilogy by Aeschylus, believed to have been performed in 468.

As the play opens, the Danaïds (born in Egypt though of Greek descent) have fled with their father to Argos in Greece in order to avoid forced marriage with their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus. Pelasgus, the king of Argos, is torn between charity to the Danaïds and anxiety to appease Aegyptus but nobly agrees in the end to grant them asylum. The trilogy as a whole seems to have favourably stressed the saving power of domestic love as contrasted with both the willfulness of the Danaïds and the unfeeling, violent lust of their cousins.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.