Suppliants

The Suppliants were the fifty daughters of Danaus, the

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

While the general Greek view of the dependence of woman on man is well expressed in the words of Aethra, in the "Suppliants" of Euripides -- "it is proper for women who are wise to let men act for them in everything."

The Greek View of Life 1897

"Suppliants," are invaluable helps in the study of the Pelasgic relations to the Greeks.

Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

Euripides's play of the 'Suppliants' is contradicted by that of Aeschylus, the

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

In the "Suppliants" Garrick could have made nothing of Pelasgus.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Milton prefaces this with a quote from Euripides, The Suppliants 437-440:

A "cloistered virtue" Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

(Aechylus, “Suppliants,” 770.) and so will a calm too, for no man knows what will be, — so likewise is it impossible for a soul that dwells in a healthful body, and that places her good in the hopes she hath of that body, to perfect her voyage here without frights or waves.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Suppliants but too rarely reach the steps of a throne; it seems as if royal palaces had the same inscription on their doors that the English have on their ships: Passengers are requested not to speak to the man at the wheel.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

Friendship,43 naming still the same god, and calling upon him as the Protector of Suppliants because when he received the guest into his house he had been fostering ignorantly the slayer of his son, and as the Guardian of Friendship because having sent him as a protector he had found him the worst of foes.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The story of Euripides in his Suppliants is disproved by Aeschylus in his

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003