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Guide to the classics: Euripides’ The Trojan Women – an unflinching look at the brutality of war
The story of the long struggle for the life of the city of Troy might be thought of as the pre-eminent Greek myth.
Extensive narratives of the war are told in the oral traditions of myth and literature, and they also appear very significantly in the material evidence of Greek art and architecture.
- Chris Mackie
- The Conversation
The Trojan Women, a play by the great Athenian dramatist Euripides (485-406 BC), was produced at Athens in …