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  • 8 - Europa Revisited

  • from Part II - Plays
  • Edited by P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol, Lyndsay Coo, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
    Published online:
    11 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 125-138

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses the extensive fragment attributed to Aeschylus’ Carians/Europa, in which the speaker Europa describes her rape by Zeus, the births of her three children, and her fear for the safety of her son Sarpedon; this speech allows the audience ‘to contemplate the sufferings of Europa over a woman’s full lifecycle, culminating in her role as aged mother awaiting her only surviving son’s return’. Considering issues of lexicon and dramatic technique, the chapter supports a date for the play in the 420s, noting with sympathy Martin West’s argument this play’s author was Aeschylus’ son Euphorion.