{"title":"ϵὔνους καὶ πóλϵι σωτήριος / μϵ́τοικος: Metics, Tragedy, and Civic Ideology","authors":"Geoff Bakewell","doi":"10.1353/SYL.1999.0000","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Towards the end of Euripides’ play The Children of Heracles (Heraclidae), the Argive ruler Eurystheus, once persecutor of Heracles’ children and now himself a captive, is led on stage. After defending his conduct in an exchange with the vengeful Alcmene, he expresses his willingness to die. He will not entreat Athens to block his impending execution, but rather accepts his fate and makes a promise to the chorus of Athenian citizens (The Children of Heracles 1030–37):1","PeriodicalId":402432,"journal":{"name":"Syllecta Classica","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Syllecta Classica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SYL.1999.0000","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Towards the end of Euripides’ play The Children of Heracles (Heraclidae), the Argive ruler Eurystheus, once persecutor of Heracles’ children and now himself a captive, is led on stage. After defending his conduct in an exchange with the vengeful Alcmene, he expresses his willingness to die. He will not entreat Athens to block his impending execution, but rather accepts his fate and makes a promise to the chorus of Athenian citizens (The Children of Heracles 1030–37):1
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