The Suppliants by Aeschylus

The Suppliants (Greek: Ικέτιδες / Hiketides; also translated as "The Suppliant Maidens") is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC as the first play in a trilogy which probably included the lost plays The Egyptians and The Daughters of Danaus.[1] It was long thought to be the earliest surviving play by Aeschylus due to the relatively anachronistic function of the chorus as the protagonist of the drama. However, evidence discovered in the mid-20th century places it after The Persians as Aeschylus's second extant play.

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Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens and The Persians, Seven against Thebes and Prometheus Bound Paperback 839677 $12.00 2010
The Suppliants Paperback 7913958 $6.64 2020
The Suppliants (Plays by Aeschylus) Kindle Edition 662842 $4.50 2016
Suppliant Maidens Kindle Edition 1144984 $1.99 2019
Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Suppliants (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity) Kindle Edition 3971513 $21.49 2011
The suppliants (Classica et Mediaevalia, dissertationes, 7) Paperback 13259025 $85.00
The Suppliant Women Kindle Edition 1042025 $3.68 2017
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus (2009-11-26) Paperback 1454299 $18.93 $23.36 2010
Suppliants/Ajax Paperback 7599581 $10.95 $8.95 2001
The Suppliants [Annotated] (With Active Table of Contents) Kindle Edition 1664665 $0.99 2011
The Suppliant Women of Aeschylus Hardcover 18621362 $5.00
The Suppliants (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) Hardcover 11686194 $8.28 $2.89
The Suppliant Women Paperback 785615 $9.16 2017
Suppliants & Other Dramas (Everyman Library) Paperback 5634202 $44.26 $0.01 1996
Schenck’s Official Stage Play Formatting Series: Vol. 72 AESCHYLUS’ THE SUPPLIANTS Eight Versions Paperback 9341147 $12.95 2020
Aeschylus: Suppliant Women (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts) Paperback 2037714 $26.90 $26.49 2013
Aeschylus: The Suppliants Hardcover 1758287 $47.50 $91.16 1980
The Suppliants Paperback 10722113 $8.73 $8.72 2004
Aeschylus, 2 : The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound (Penn Greek Drama Series) Hardcover 4479600 $118.36 $18.13 1998
The Suppliants: Translated by F L Light Audible Audio Edition 68452 $6.08 2014
Walter Schenck Presents AESCHYLUS’ FOUR PLAYS THE PERSIANS, THE SUPPLIANTS, THE SEVEN CHIEFS AGAINST THEBES, PROMETHEUS CHAINED Translated By REV. ROBERT POTTER Paperback 3191711 $7.95 2020
Suppliant Women Kindle Edition 1759481 $3.90 2013
Aeschylus: The Suppliants (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 78) Paperback 3731571 $9.76 $3.68 1991
The Suppliants Paperback 8058050 $7.50 $3.50
The Suppliants Paperback 11337244 $10.46 $38.31 2004
Three Other Theban Plays: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes; Euripides' Suppliants; Euripides' Phoenician Women Kindle Edition 451100 $10.99 2016
Four Plays Of Aeschylus: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Prometheus Bound Paperback 9441901 $15.81 $54.58 2004
The Suppliants (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Hardcover 2712993 $24.99 $5.00 1975