Hiketidai

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Hiketidai is the ancient Greek title of Aeschylus’s tragedy commonly known in English as "The Suppliants."

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Hiketidai canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek play
tragedy
work by Aeschylus
associatedWithFestival City Dionysia in Athens
linked to: City Dionysia
author Aeschylus
countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
dramaticStructure chorus-dominated play
featuresChorusOf Danaid suppliants
linked to: Danaids
form dramatic poetry
genre Greek tragedy
hasEnglishTitle The Suppliant Women
linked to: The Suppliants

The Suppliants
hasSurvivingTextStatus substantially extant
hasTheme asylum
divine justice
marriage
political decision-making
supplication
influenced later Greek tragedy on supplication
literaryPeriod Classical Greek literature
literaryTradition Attic tragedy
mainCharacters Danaids
King of Argos
mythologicalCycle Danaids myth
linked to: Danaids
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
originalTitle Ἱκέτιδαι
partOf Aeschylean corpus
setting Argos
timeOfComposition 5th century BCE
titleLanguage Ancient Greek
workType stage play

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The Suppliants originalTitle Hiketidai