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On a wing of smoke. O halls raging, running with flames, 1300 Defeated by fire, and the foeman’s spear. Children hear me! Heed your mother’s voice! You call the dead with your cries. [Throwing herself to the ground] An old woman, I lie on the ground, And beat the earth with my two hands. We follow you and kneel on the ground, Calling on our poor dead husbands. We are carried off, dragged away…. Pain, pain you cry. Hecuba Chorus Hecuba Chorus Hecuba Chorus Hecuba Leaving my country for a house of slavery. Io io. Priam, Priam, You are dead, without a tomb, No loved one close, No knowledge of my suffering. Dark death covered his eyes Chorus 66
A holy man in unholy slaughter. Hecuba O shrines of the gods, Beloved city. Chorus [Keening] E e. Hecuba Bloody flame and spear shafts rule. Chorus Now nameless you are rubble on our beloved earth. On smoke’s wing, As it flies to the sky, Ash covers my home, I see it no more. Hecuba Chorus The name of this land, unknown. One person vanished here, another there. Troy, poor Troy, is no more. Did you see? Did you hear? The fall of Troy. Hecuba Chorus 67
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EURIPIDES’ TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE,
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Tragedy and Comedy in Athens were p
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The goddess Athene, his niece, trie
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This play was performed in 415 BC,
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This play shows us a new type of he
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Original Staging The original Athen
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Syracuse after the ill-fated Sicili
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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 and 64: Hecuba [Keening] Oimoi moi. Chorus
Page 65: Talthybius [To his soldiers] Seize
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