antistrophe 2

She, from her happy home and fair streams scared away,

Wails wild and sad for haunts beloved erewhile.

Yea, and for Itylus-ah, well-a-day!

Slain by her own, his mother's hand,

Maddened by lustful wrong, the deed by Tereus planned!

The Suppliants was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC as the first play in a tetralogy, sometimes referred to as the Danaid Tetralogy which probably included the lost plays The Egyptians and The Daughters of Danaus and the satyr play Amymone.

Asechylus(525/524 BC–456/455 BC): the first of classical Athens' great dramatists, who raised the emerging art of tragedy to great heights of poetry and theatrical power. Aeschylus wrote approximately 90 plays, including satyr plays as well as tragedies; of these, only seven survived. According to the philosopher Flavius Philostratus, Aeschylus was known as the “Father of Tragedy.”Aeschylus' influence on the development of tragedy was fundamental. Previous to him, Greek drama was limited to one actor and a chorus engaged in a largely static recitation. By adding a second actor with whom the first could converse, Aeschylus vastly increased the drama's possibilities for dialogue and dramatic tension and allowed more variety and freedom in plot construction.