The Suppliant Maidens: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Suppliant Maidens by Aeschylus: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 2 original MP3 tracks, 1:06:44 running time and a link to listen.
The Suppliant Maidens, credited to Aeschylus, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Suppliant Maidens (Morshead Translation) by Aeschylus. (Translated by Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead.) Read in English by Expatriate The Suppliants, also called The Suppliant Maidens, or The Suppliant Women, is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC. 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 shows it one of Aeschylus' last plays, definitely after The Persians and possibly after Seven Against Thebes....The Danaids form the chorus and serve as the protagonists. They flee a forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. When the Danaides reach Argos, they entreat King Pelasgus to protect them. He refuses pending the decision of the Argive people, who decide in the favor of the Danaids. Danaus rejoices the outcome, and the Danaids praise the Greek gods. Almost immediately, a herald of the Egyptians comes to attempt to force the Danaids to return to their cousins for marriage. Pelasgus arrives, threatens the herald, and urges the Danaids to remain within the walls of Argos. The play ends with the Danaids retreating into the Argive walls, protected. - Summary by Wikipedia
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Suppliant Maidens
- Author credits: Aeschylus
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 2
- Listed recording duration: 1:06:44
Catalogue topics
- greek tragedy
- aeschylus
Track guide
- 01 - Part I — 35:44
- 02 - Part II — 31:00
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