The Trojan Women
By Euripides
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Euripides
Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. He was born on Salamis Island around 480 BC to his mother, Cleito, and father, Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens. He had two disastrous marriages, and both his wives—Melite and Choerine (the latter bearing him three sons)—were unfaithful. He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. He became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education. The details of his death are uncertain.
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The Trojan Women - Euripides
WOMEN
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Poseidon
Athena
Hecuba
Chorus of Captive Trojan Women
Talthybius
Cassandra
Andromache
Menelaus
THE TROJAN WOMEN
SCENE
Before Agamemnon›s Tent in the Camp near Troy. HECUBA asleep. Enter POSEIDON.
POSEIDON
Lo! From the depths of salt Aegean floods I, Poseidon, come, where choirs of Nereids trip in the mazes of the graceful dance; for since the day that Phoebus and myself with measurement exact set towers of stone about this land of Troy and ringed it round, never from my heart hath passed away a kindly feeling for my Phrygian town, which now is smouldering and o›erthrown, a prey to Argive prowess. For, from his home beneath Parnassus, Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed host, and sent it within the battlements, fraught with death; whence in days to come men shall tell of «the wooden horse,» with its hidden load of warriors. Groves forsaken stand and temples of the gods run down with blood, and at the altar›s very base, before the god who watched his home, lies Priam dead. While to Achaean ships great store of gold andPhrygian spoils are being conveyed, and they who came against this town, those sons Of Hellas, only wait a favouring breeze to follow in their wake, that after ten long years they may with joy behold their wives and children. Vanquished by Hera, Argive goddess, and by Athena, who helped to ruin Phrygia, I am leaving Ilium, that famous town, and the altars that I love; for whendrear desolation seizes on a town, the worship of the gods decays and tends to lose respect. Scamander›s banks re-echo long and loud the screams of captive maids, as they by lot receive their masters. Arcadia taketh some, and some the folk of Thessaly; others are assigned to Theseus› sons, the Athenian chiefs. And such of the Trojan dames as are not portioned out, are in these tents, set apart for the leaders of the host; and with them Spartan Helen, daughter of Tyndarus, justly counted among the captives.And wouldst thou see that queen of misery, Hecuba, thou canst; for there she lies before the gates, weeping many a bitter tear for many a tribulation; for at Achilles› tomb-though she knows not this-her daughter Polyxena has died most piteously; likewise is Priam dead, and her children too; Cassandra, whom the king Apollo left to be a virgin, frenzied maid, hath Agamemnon, in contempt of the god›s ordinance and of piety, forced to a dishonoured wedlock. Farewell, O city prosperous once! farewell, ye ramparts of hewn stone! had not Pallas, daughter of Zeus, decreed thy ruin, thou wert standing firmly still.
Enter ATHENA.
ATHENA
May I address the mighty god whom Heaven reveres and who to my own sire is very nigh in blood, laying aside our former enmity?
POSEIDON
Thou mayst; for o’er the soul the ties of kin exert no feeble spell, great queen Athena.
ATHENA
For thy forgiving mood my thanks! Somewhat have I to impart affecting both thyself and me, O king.
POSEIDON
Bringst thou fresh tidings from some god, from Zeus, or from some lesser power?
ATHENA
From none of these; but on behalf of Troy, whose soil we tread, am I come to seek thy mighty aid, to make it one with mine.
POSEIDON
What! hast thou laid thy former hate aside to take compassion on the town now that it is burnt to ashes?
ATHENA
First go back to the former point; wilt thou make common cause with me in