Evadne

Family: Argos · Role: wife of Capaneus · First appears: Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7

Life events

• Evadne married Capaneus.(Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Capaneus
  • “in the day that the city of Argos raised the stately chant of joy at my wedding, in honour of my marriage with mail-clad Capaneus”
• Evadne fled her father's house, intending to leap into Capaneus’s funeral fire and die beside him.(Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7)
  • “Now from my home in frantic haste with frenzied mind I rush to join thee, seeking to share with thee the fire’s bright flame and the self-same tomb, to rid me of my weary life in Hades’ halls”
• Evadne leaps onto Capaneus’s pyre and dies with him.(Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 8)
  • With: Capaneus
  • “Lo! I cast me down, no joy to thee, but to myself and to my husband blazing on the pyre with me.”

Euripides, The Suppliants — Scene 7

• married with Capaneus “in the day that the city of Argos raised the stately chant of joy at my wedding, in honour of my marriage with mail-clad Capaneus?”
• parent: 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

• parent: Iphis “My daughter, speak not thus before the multitude!”
• married with Capaneus “In bravery; for I will lay me down and die with my lord. IPHIS. What dost thou say? What is this silly riddle thou propoundest? EVADNE. To yonder pyre where lies dead Capaneus, I will leap down. IPHIS. My daughter, speak not thus before the multitude! EVADNE. The very thing I wish, that every Argive should learn it. IPHIS. Nay, I will ne’er consent to let thee do this deed. EVADNE. ’Tis all one; thou shalt never catch me in thy grasp. Lo! I cast me down, no joy to thee, but to myself and to my husband blazing on the pyre with me.”

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