The captive women of fallen Troy await enslavement as their city burns and their children are killed. Euripides's devastating anti-war tragedy.
Books that mention The Trojan Women (3)
The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault: “The play was Euripides' The Women of Troy”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Early modern readers were far more interested in Euripides' Hecuba than in his Trojan Women”
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon: “Death cannot be what Life is, Child … —Euripides, The Trojan Women (epigraph); later the cast stages it: “Do Medea and Trojan Women.””