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    The Heracleidae
    The Heracleidae
    The Heracleidae
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    The Heracleidae

    By Euripides

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    Euripides was one of the greatest Greek tragedians and is considered one of the most important figures in ancient literature.  Euripides is thought to have written close to 100 plays and almost 20 of them have survived.  This edition of The Heracleidae includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531283643
    The Heracleidae
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    Euripides

    Charles Martin is a poet, translator, and essayist. The author of seven books of poems and translator of Catullus and Ovid, he is the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine, and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.   A.E. Stallings is an American poet and translator who lives in Athens, Greece. Her most recent books are LIKE: Poems and a translation of Hesiod’s Works and Days.  

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      The Heracleidae - Euripides

      THE HERACLEIDAE

      ..................

      Euripides

      KYPROS PRESS

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      Copyright © 2016 by Euripides

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Heracleidae

      CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

      THE HERACLEIDAE

      ..................

      Translated by Edward P. Coleridge

      CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

      IOLAUS, friend of Heracles

      COPREUS, herald of EURYSTHEUS

      DEMOPHON, King of Athens

      MACARIA, daughter of Heracles

      SERVANT, of Hyllus, son of Heracles

      ALCMENA, mother of Heracles

      MESSENGER

      EURYSTHEUS; King of Argos

      CHORUS OF AGED ATHENIANS

      Acamas, the brother of DEMOPHON, younger sons of Heracles, attendants, guards, etc.

      SCENE: Before the altar and temple of Zeus at Marathon.

      (IOLAUS, an old man, and the children of Heracles are seen on the steps of the altar.)

      IOLAUS I HOLD this true, and long have held: Nature hath made one man upright for his neighbours’ good, while another hath a disposition wholly given over to gain, useless alike to the state and difficult to have dealings with, but for himself the best of men; and this I know, not from mere hearsay. For I, from pure regard and reverence for my kith and kin, though might have lived at peace in Argos, alone of all my race shared with Heracles his labours, while he was yet with us, and now that he dwells in heaven, I keep these his children safe beneath my wing, though myself need protection. For when their father passed from earth away, Eurystheus would first of all have slain us, but we escaped. And though our home is lost, our life was saved. But in exile we wander from city to city, ever forced to roam. For, added to our former wrongs, Eurystheus thought it fit to put this further outrage upon us: wheresoe’er he heard that we were settling, thither would he send heralds demanding our surrender and driving us from thence, holding out this threat, that Argos is no meal city to make a friend or foe, and furthermore pointing to his own prosperity. So they, seeing how weak my means, and these little ones left without a father, bow to his superior might and drive us from their land. And I share the exile of these children, and help them bear their evil lot by my sympathy, loth to betray them, lest someone say, Look you! now that the children’s sire is dead, Iolaus no more protects them, kinsman though he is. Not one corner left us in the whole of Hellas, we are come to Marathon and its neighbouring land, and here we sit as suppliants at the

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