Euripides: Trojan Women

by Barbara Goff

Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, from the rape of Cassandra, through the triumphant self-exculpation of Helen, to the pitiful death of the child Astyanax, who is thrown from the walls...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071563545X
• ISBN13: 9780715635452
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.3"