The Trojan Women Euripides

Anti-War Sentiments in Trojan Women

In the year 415 B.C.E., the Greeks had been fighting a long and bloody war with Sparta for over a decade. It was in this year that Euripides, a well-known playwright, wrote Trojan Women, a tragedy about the...

Universal suffering and pain is the ultimate aftermath of war; this is the fundamental message Euripides strives to display in his tragedy, ‘The Women of Troy’, performed to an audience of Athenian men in 415BC, a year progressing the atrocities...