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Suppliant Women (Hiketides)

Suppliant Women (Hiketides) (c. 422 BCE) Inferred

Euripides (c. 480–406 BCE) · c. 422 BCE

InferredBrief reference to the Suppliant Women (Iphis lamenting Evadne) — 'in the Supplicants, after the voluntary death of Evadne'. Named explicitly 'the Supplicants' — Euripides' Suppliant Women. Brief quotation of Iphis' lament for his daughter Evadne.

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Documented 1845

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undatedThe SuppliantsDemonstrated
“or in the "Supplicants," after the voluntary death of Evadne, says: 'What shall this wretch now do? Should I return to my own house?”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Quoted play dialogue nested within the same large excerpted Euripides block.

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“Never have the names of father and daughter been uttered with a holier tenderness than by Euripides, as in this most lovely passage, or in the "Supplicants," after the voluntary death of Evadne: Iphis says "What shall this wretch now do?...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Brief reference to the Suppliant Women (Iphis lamenting Evadne) — 'in the Supplicants, after the voluntary death of Evadne'. Named explicitly 'the Supplicants' — Euripides' Suppliant Women. Brief quotation of Iphis' lament for his daughter Evadne.