Euripides’ Suppliants: Mystery Cult Initiation and the Deaths of Evadne and Capaneus
Euripides’ Suppliants: Mystery Cult Initiation and the Deaths of Evadne and Capaneus
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
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The deaths of Capaneus and Evadne in Euripides’ Suppliants have caused considerable difficulty. Many argue there are irreconcilable contradictions in Capaneus’s portrayal throughout the play. Many have also found the portrayal of Evadne’s death, leaping from a great height, as being out of the ordinary in terms of character and Greek stagecraft. Th...
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Euripides’ Suppliants: Mystery Cult Initiation and the Deaths of Evadne and Capaneus
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2812764020
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2812764020
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0004-0975,1080-6504
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1080-6504
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10.1353/are.2022.0000
