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Hecuba Children! Andromache Once, no more. Hecuba Gone my happiness, gone my Troy. Andromache You poor woman. Hecuba Gone are my noble children. Andromache [Keening] Pheu pheu. Hecuba Pheu. That song for my … Andromache Pain. Hecuba Pitiful luck. Andromache For the city. 42
Hecuba All in smoke. Andromache Oh husb<strong>and</strong>, husb<strong>and</strong>, come to me! Hecuba Poor thing, you call for my son, But he’s dead. Andromache Defend your wife! You who shamed the Greeks… Hecuba You were the first child That I bore to Priam, Andromache Carry me off to Hades. I long so for death… Poor woman, this is the pain we suffer. Hecuba Our city gone… Andromache Hecuba Pain heaped on pain. The gods hate us, Because your other son Escaped death; He destroyed lofty Troy For the sake of his loathsome lust. Food for the vultures, Andromache 43
Page 1 and 2: EURIPIDES’ TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE,
Page 3 and 4: Tragedy and Comedy in Athens were p
Page 5 and 6: The goddess Athene, his niece, trie
Page 7 and 8: This play was performed in 415 BC,
Page 9 and 10: This play shows us a new type of he
Page 11 and 12: Original Staging The original Athen
Page 13 and 14: Syracuse after the ill-fated Sicili
Page 15 and 16: The most popular of Euripides’ pl
Page 17 and 18: Webster, T. B. L., The Tragedies of
Page 19 and 20: CASSANDRA (ca-SAN-drah), daughter o
Page 21 and 22: SCAMANDER (sca-MAND-er), river in T
Page 23 and 24: [Troy in ruins is smoking in the ba
Page 25 and 26: Athena Did you know that the Greeks
Page 27 and 28: The prows of the ships With swift b
Page 29 and 30: Half-chorus B Has some Greek messen
Page 31 and 32: Hecuba Here it is women. The moment
Page 33 and 34: What are you saying? She’s alive,
Page 35 and 36: Where I served you as my lord. 330
Page 37 and 38: [Aside] These men in their high sta
Page 39 and 40: I was royal and I married royalty,
Page 41: Hecuba, See here’s Andromache, Br
Page 45 and 46: Andromache We are dragged off as bo
Page 47 and 48: to Greece, a prisoner of the spear,
Page 49 and 50: Andromache May his sons also suffer
Page 51 and 52: Your life is ripped away from us, f
Page 53 and 54: She is one of the defeated slaves,
Page 55 and 56: he came, that nemesis, whether you
Page 57 and 58: Menelaus [To Hecuba] I agree with y
Page 59 and 60: And shout as they weep. A little gi
Page 61 and 62: uilt high by Loxias, have shorn fro
Page 63 and 64: Hecuba [Keening] Oimoi moi. Chorus
Page 65 and 66: Talthybius [To his soldiers] Seize
Page 67 and 68: A holy man in unholy slaughter. Hec

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