Francis Blessington, "Trojan Women, Helen, Hecuba: Three Plays about Women and the Trojan War"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0299305244 | EPUB | pages: 280 | 0.6 mb
These three ancient tragedies―Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba―dramatize the tragic fates of women in the wake of war. Euripides (480-406 BC) innovatively brought to Greek tragedy the inner lives of his characters. In these plays he delivers powerful portrayals of the suffering of both Greek and Trojan women as they become pawns and prizes of warring men.