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The Trojan Women (Hardcover)
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The Trojan Women (Hardcover)
Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
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Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows
us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its
grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme
to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively
few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here
the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks
clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world
from his. The theme is really a double one: the suffering of the
victims of war, exemplified by the woman who survive the fall of
Troy, and the degradation of the victors, shown by the Greeks'
reckless and ultimately self-destructive behavior. It offers an
enduring picture of human fortitude in the midst of despair. Trojan
Women gains special relevance, of course, in times of war. It
presents a particularly intense account of human suffering and
uncertainty, but one that is also rooted in considerations of power
and policy, morality and expedience. Furthermore, the seductions of
power and the dangers both of its exercise and of resistance to it
as portrayed in Trojan Women are not simply philosophical or
rhetorical gambits but part of the lived experience of Euripides'
day. And their analogues in our own day lie all too close at
hand.
This new powerful translation of Trojan Women includes an
illuminating introduction, explanatory notes, a glossary, and
suggestions for further reading.
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