Definitions

1. The Trojan Women (in Greek: Τρῳάδες, Trōades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides.
2. The Trojan Women was the third tragedy of a trilogy of dealing with the Trojan War.
3. The Trojan women were at the mercy of the blood-crazed Greeks as they rampaged throughout the city.
4. The Trojan Women is a play on the consequences of war and the fate of those defeated in war and their victors.
5. The Trojan women were divided up as prizes.

Trojan Men

1. She goes on to explain how she rejoiced over the deaths of the Trojan men while the Trojan women were grieving.

Aid Hecuba

1. The crisis calls on us to aid Hecuba and the Trojan women.

Basis

1. Greek director Michael Cacoyannis used Euripides' script as the basis for his 1971 film The Trojan Women.

Little

1. It's either too stylized or not stylized enough to be successful, IMO. His "Trojan Women" is a little better but "Iphigenia" is a masterpiece.
2. Polyxena, then, along with all the other captive Trojan women, were little more than objects to be traded amongst the warriors.

Play

1. Throughout the play, many of the Trojan women lament the loss of the land that reared them.

Slavery

1. In the total sack that followed, Priam and his remaining sons were slaughtered; the Trojan women passed into slavery in various cities of Greece.
2. Finally, as Troy goes up in flames, Hecuba and the other Trojan women are taken off to the ships to face slavery in Greece.

Agamemnon

1. HECUBA enters from the tent of AGAMEMNON, supported by her attendants, captive Trojan women.

Tents

1. HECUBA Sheltered beneath these tents is a host of Trojan women.

Chorus

1. Electra announces the discovery to the Chorus of Trojan women, who bear her libation for her to the tomb of her father, and from whom the play is named.
2. A Chorus of Trojan women, now slaves of Agamemnon, reports of the demands of the dead Achilles and the recent Greek debate.

Young Son

1. Telling the Trojan women to pray for help from the gods, he bids farewell to his wife, Andromache, and his young son.

Euripides

1. Taking place near the same time is The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides.
2. One of the most puzzling sources is Euripides, who shows us completely different Helens in his two plays Helen and The Trojan Women.

Hecuba

1. According to Euripides, however, in his plays "The Trojan Women" and Hecuba, Polyxena's famous death was caused at the end of the Trojan War.
2. Her story is told in Hecuba and mentioned in The Trojan Women, both authored by Euripides.
3. In book 6 of the Iliad, with Hecuba and the Trojan women, Theano offered a gift and plea to Athena for the life of the city, but was rebuffed.

Trojan Women

1. In Euripedes' "The Trojan Women", it is Odysseus who convinces the other Argives to kill Hector's young son, so he has no chance to avenge his city.
2. In Trojan Women, Helen is detested by men and women, as well as by Greeks and Trojans.
3. Hecuba is seen as the leading character in the play, The Trojan Women (in Greek, Troiades) and Hecuba, both tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides.

Categories

1. Poems > Epics > Iliad > Hecuba
2. Euripides
3. Argives
4. Epics > Iliad > Trojans > Trojan War
5. Young Son
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