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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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek play
tragedy
work by Aeschylus
associatedWithFestival City Dionysia in Athens NERFINISHED
author Aeschylus NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
dramaticStructure chorus-dominated play
featuresChorusOf Danaid suppliants NERFINISHED
form dramatic poetry
genre Greek tragedy
hasEnglishTitle The Suppliant Women NERFINISHED
The Suppliants NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
King of Argos NERFINISHED
mythologicalCycle Danaids myth NERFINISHED
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
originalTitle Ἱκέτιδαι
partOf Aeschylean corpus NERFINISHED
setting Argos NERFINISHED
timeOfComposition 5th century BCE
titleLanguage Ancient Greek
workType stage play

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The Suppliants originalTitle Hiketidai