Suppliant Women

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselvescan properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus,Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offersnew translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order toevoke the poetry of the originals. Under the editorship of Herbert Golder andthe late William Arrowsmith, each volume includes a critical introduction,commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythicaland geographical references in the plays.Already tested in performance on the stage, this translation shows for thefirst time in English the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' SuppliantWomen. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy,between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures withunremitting force the competing poles of the human psyche. The translators,Rosanna Warren and Stephen Scully, accentuate the contrast between female lamentand male reasoned discourse in this play where the silent dead hold, finally,center stage.

bout the Editors:
Rosanna Warren is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Boston University and Poetry Consultant for the Partisan Review. Stephen Scully is Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University.