The Trojan Women

Euripides

⏱ 8 minDrama

The morning after Troy burns, its widowed queens wait on the shore to be parcelled out as slaves — and lose, one by one, even the children they have left. Euripides' searing lament, the greatest of all anti-war plays.

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