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The Trojan Women of Euripides - cover

The Trojan Women of Euripides

Euripides

Translator Gilbert Murray

Publisher: Good Press

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The Trojan Women also translated as The Women of Troy, and also known by its transliterated Greek title Troades, is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier that year. Excerpt: "Judged by common standards, the Troädes is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play. It is an intense study of one great situation, with little plot, little construction, and little or no relief or variety. The only movement of the drama is a gradual extinguishing of all the familiar lights of human life…"
Available since: 11/20/2019.
Print length: 146 pages.

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