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Greek Tragedy XXVI: Euripides’s Trojan Women, or It’s Always Darkest Before It Goes Pitch Black
I told you that Euripides just keeps getting darker and darker the farther we get into his career. The Trojan Women is pretty grim. A content warning: This play contains a rather grisly infanticide.
To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio’s School of Classical Civilization. If there’s no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode.
References
Euripides. “The Trojan Women.” Ten Plays. Translated by Paul Roche, Signet Classics, 1998, pp. 456-512.
Sanders-Schneider, Ivy. "The Trojan Women." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 9 Feb 2018. Web. 12 Nov 2020.
“The Trojan Women – Euripides | Play Summary, Characters – Ancient Greece". Ancient Literature, https://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_euripides_trojan.html. Accessed 11 Nov 2020
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I told you that Euripides just keeps getting darker and darker the farther we get into his career. The Trojan Women is pretty grim. A content warning: This play contains a rather grisly infanticide.
To join the discussion, visit the blog at Triumvir Clio’s School of Classical Civilization. If there’s no hyperlink showing up here, you can go to triumvirclio.school.blog to find a feed of recent episodes as well as discussion pages for every episode.
References
Euripides. “The Trojan Women.” Ten Plays. Translated by Paul Roche, Signet Classics, 1998, pp. 456-512.
Sanders-Schneider, Ivy. "The Trojan Women." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 9 Feb 2018. Web. 12 Nov 2020.
“The Trojan Women – Euripides | Play Summary, Characters – Ancient Greece". Ancient Literature, https://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_euripides_trojan.html. Accessed 11 Nov 2020