1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

and luxury means little to the dead; it is just vain show for the living. 1250 [Keening] Io io. Chorus Your poor mother who had such great hopes for you. You had so much wealth and luxury, and came from noble ancestors. Ea ea. What is this I see? People brandishing flaming torches On the heights of Ilium? New evils on top of the old Assail Troy. Talthybius I speak to you captains who are ordered to set Troy on fire, don’t hold back any longer, but do your work quickly. After the city is leveled to the ground, then we’ll sail happily home from Troy. You women, I have two messages for you. When the army leaders sound the trumpet, go to the Greek ships to sail away from this land. [Pointing to some soldiers] And you, old woman, unhappiest of all, follow them. They have come from Odysseus; the lot gave you to him as a slave and takes you away from this land. Hecuba Oh miserable. This is the last and worst of all the sorrows I’ve suffered. I leave my country and my city burns. Old feet, make an effort, carry me to the embrace of the flame so that I may die along with my city. O Troy, great among all the barbarian cities, soon your famous name will be forgotten. They have set you on fire, and me they take away from this land as a slave. O gods! But why do I call on the gods? They never listened to my prayers before. Come, let’s run into the fire, so that I may die gloriously in my city’s flames. 64
Talthybius [To his soldiers] Seize her, and don’t let her go. You have to hand her over to Odysseus; she is his war prize. [To Hecuba] Poor creature, your suffering has driven you mad. [Keening] Otototototoi! O son of Cronus, lord of Phrygia, father, And begetter of our race, Do you see what indignities we suffer? We, the offspring of Dardanus? He has seen. But Troy, the greatest of cities Is a city no longer. Troy is no more. [Keening] Otototototoi! Troy is burning bright, The buildings of Troy blaze with fire, The heart of the city, With its high walls. Our land, fallen to the spear, Is utterly destroyed, And floats heavenward Hecuba Chorus Hecuba Chorus 65
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 and 42: Hecuba, See here’s Andromache, Br
Page 43 and 44: Hecuba All in smoke. Andromache Oh
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: Hecuba [Keening] Oimoi moi. Chorus
Page 67 and 68: A holy man in unholy slaughter. Hec
show all

1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?