The Trojan Women (Euripides - A Greek Tragedy) - Softcover

Euripides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535371129 ISBN 13: 9781535371124

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The Trojan Women - Euripides - Translated by Edward P. Coleridge - A Greek Tragedy - The Trojan Women, also known as 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. 415 BC was also the year of the scandalous desecration of the hermai and the Athenians' second expedition to Sicily, events which may also have influenced the author. The Trojan Women was the third tragedy of a trilogy dealing with the Trojan War. The first tragedy, Alexandros, was about the recognition of the Trojan prince Paris who had been abandoned in infancy by his parents and rediscovered in adulthood. The second tragedy, Palamedes, dealt with Greek mistreatment of their fellow Greek Palamedes. This trilogy was presented at the Dionysia along with the comedic satyr play Sisyphos. The plots of this trilogy were not connected in the way that Aeschylus' Oresteia was connected. Euripides did not favor such connected trilogies.

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Euripides (c. 480 406 BCE) wrote some ninety plays, nineteen of which have survived.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1535371129
• ISBN 13: 9781535371124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 26