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Euripides’ Troades
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Abstract
From dramas which incorporate Ilioupersis themes we turn to a dramatization of the Ilioupersis itself, or as close to such as any Athenian playwright could come. Set in the immediate aftermath of the capture, as the captive women await departure and the city awaits final destruction, Euripides’ Troades presents a panorama of lamented suffering comparable in scope to an epic Ilioupersis. Without dramatizing the traditional highlights of the capture itself-an impossibility on the Athenian stage-Euripides nevertheless reproduced the composite spirit of the epic accounts by including a wide cast of characters engaged in a varied sequence of complementary actions.
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Title: Euripides’ Troades
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Abstract
From dramas which incorporate Ilioupersis themes we turn to a dramatization of the Ilioupersis itself, or as close to such as any Athenian playwright could come.
Set in the immediate aftermath of the capture, as the captive women await departure and the city awaits final destruction, Euripides’ Troades presents a panorama of lamented suffering comparable in scope to an epic Ilioupersis.
Without dramatizing the traditional highlights of the capture itself-an impossibility on the Athenian stage-Euripides nevertheless reproduced the composite spirit of the epic accounts by including a wide cast of characters engaged in a varied sequence of complementary actions.
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