Suasion

Family: Gods · Role: personification · First appears: Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 8

Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 8

• parent: Aphrodite (Desire and Suasion are identified as children of their beloved mother, Aphrodite.) “Yea, as associates too with that their mother belovèd, Are fair Desire and Suasion, whose pleading no man can gainsay,”

Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 6

• with Athena (Suasion guides Athena's speech.) “And I love the glance of Suasion, That she guides my speech and accent Unto these who gainsaid stoutly.”
• pupil: Athena (Suasion guides Athena's speech.) “And I love the glance of Suasion, That she guides my speech and accent Unto these who gainsaid stoutly.”
• friends with Athena “And I love the glance of Suasion, That she guides my speech and accent Unto these who gainsaid stoutly.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.