Euripides, Troades

David Kovacs (University of Virginia)

Ed. by Vaios Liapis, Open University of Cyprus
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.1: Greek Writing and Culture: Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Imperial, -800--100.
Vol. editors: Jonathan Burgess (University of Toronto), Anca Dan (École Practique de Hautes Études PSL), Martine Diepenbroek (University of Johannesburg), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Victoria Fendel (University of Oxford), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Vaios Liapis (Open University of Cyprus), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Mali Skotheim (Ashoka University), Laura Swift (The Open University), Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti (University of Liverpool)

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First circulation or publication -415

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Trojan Women

depicts the aftermath of the fall of Troy, in which members of the Trojan royal family are sent into slavery, and Astyanax, the son of Hector and Andromache, is thrown to his death from the battlements of Troy. It was frequently performed in the last century as an anti-war play, and this practice continues into our century. It is often maintained that the play, produced in 415 B.C., was intended to reproach the Athenians for their brutal assault on the neutral island of Melos the previous year (for the history see Thucydides 5.84-116). The island was starved into submission, and all its adult males were massacred and its women and children sold into slavery. On such a view the play is a

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, in which the Trojans represent the Melians and the Greek the…

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Citation: Kovacs, David. "Troades". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 August 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13363, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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