Iphis

Family: Argos · Role: father of Evadne and Eteocles · First appears: Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7

Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7

• child: Evadne “Unhappy child! lo! I am come, a poor old man, with twofold sorrow in my house to mourn, that I may carry to his native land the corpse of my son Eteocles, slain by the Theban spear, and further in quest of my daughter who rushed headlong from the house, for she was the wife of Capaneus and longed with him to die.”
• child: Eteocles (son of Iphis) “Unhappy child! lo! I am come, a poor old man, with twofold sorrow in my house to mourn, that I may carry to his native land the corpse of my son Eteocles, slain by the Theban spear, and further in quest of my daughter who rushed headlong from the house, for she was the wife of Capaneus and longed with him to die.”

Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 8

• child: Evadne “My daughter, speak not thus before the multitude!”

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