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The Trojan Women of Euripides

Euripides

Politics & EconomicsEnglish
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Troy has fallen. Its men are dead, and in the ruins the women wait to be shared out as slaves among the Greek victors: the old queen Hecuba, her daughter…

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Author
Euripides
Category
Politics & Economics
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Troy has fallen. Its men are dead, and in the ruins the women wait to be shared out as slaves among the Greek victors: the old queen Hecuba, her daughter Cassandra, who foresees the doom of the Greeks, her daughter-in-law Andromache, and Helen, whose beauty caused the war. One terrible decision follows another, above all the order to kill Andromache's little son, so that no heir of Troy will grow up to take revenge.

Context and significance

Euripides staged the play in 415 BC, months after Athens had destroyed the island of Melos, killing its men and enslaving its women and children, and it is one of the most powerful protests against war ever written. This translation is by Gilbert Murray. Read Thucydides, who tells the story of Melos.

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