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The Suppliants

by Aeschylus

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A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave. Step swift thereto, And in your left hands hold with reverence The white-crowned wands of suppliance, the sign Beloved of Zeus, compassion's lord, and speak To those that question you, words meek and low And piteous, as beseems your stranger state,

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thismythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
Themes
theatretheatreMore like thisLess of this
Setting
ancient historyancient historyMore like thisLess of thisancient Greeceancient GreeceMore like thisLess of thisantiquityantiquityMore like thisLess of thisGreeceGreeceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 60 pages
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