Prologue
0:00 Opening monologue by Poseidon
First Episode
3:28 Athena and Poseidon
6:58 Hecuba's first monologue
10:11 Enter Chorus
Second Episode
13:58 Talthybius and Hecuba dialogue
Third Episode
17:14 Stasimon 1 - Cassandra
23:00 Talthybius reacts to Casandra's speech
28:23 Hecuba falls to the ground, then she delivers a speech that concludes by saying to never call a man lucky until he is dead.
32:21 Stasimon 2 - The chorus sings an ode summarizing the fall of Troy
Fourth Episode
35:25 Andromache, Hector's wife
44:11 Talthybius brings bad new
52:29 Stasimon 3 - The chorus tells the story of the first destruction of Troy
Fifth Episode
56:49 Menelaus and Helen
59:26 Helen enters
01:14:32 Stasimon 4 - The chorus sings to Zeus, asking if all that has befallen Troy is what he desired
Sixth Episode
1:18:15 Talthybius and the broken corpse of Astyanax
1:20:34 Hecuba asks why the Greeks killed the child
1:26:40 Exodus - Talthybius returns with soldiers, announcing that Troy is to be burned down before the Greeks sail home.
1:31:31 Credits
The renowned Greek classicist Edith Hamilton described The Trojan Women in this way:
"The greatest piece of anti-war literature there is in the world was written 2,350 years ago. Nothing since, no description or denunciation of war's terrors and futilities, ranks with The Trojan Women, which was put upon the stage by Euripides in the year 416 B.C. In that far away age, a man saw with perfect clarity what war was and wrote what he saw in a play of surpassing power..." She went on to add - "...and, nothing happened.", i.e., No-one listened. That last comment of Hamilton's has proven to be exceedingly accurate as no age since those ancient times has experienced a world without war.
The Trojan Women takes place in the immediate aftermath of Troy's defeat, which ended the ten-year Trojan War, fought between the Trojans and the Greeks. The night before the play's events, the Greeks infiltrated the city hidden inside a giant wooden horse, which the Trojans took to be an offering to the gods. The Greeks have now killed the Trojan men and are in the process of enslaving the surviving women and children before they head back to Greece.
Euripides chose this theme to write about, based on a myth well known to the Greeks of his time, only a year after Athens captured a nearby island, killing the men and taking the women as slaves.
The play was well-received when it was first performed, but after a short time those in power took offense at this "mirror" that Euripides held up to his countrymen. As a result, he was forced to leave Athens in exile, never to return.
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