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The Trojan Women By Euripides

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The Trojan Women is a tragedy written by Euripides in the year 415 B.C. It takes place in Troy after the Trojan War and opens with the god Poseidon conspiring to curse the Greek ships which are carrying tons of gold and enslaved women back from Troy which is near decay at this point. Hecuba the former queen of Troy curses Helen who is the cause of the war. After that Hecuba learns she will be a slave to Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who is taking slaves and booty home on his ship back to Ithaca. Hecuba then learns that her grandson is to be cast off the walls of the Troy because of the fear the Greeks have that he will grow up like his father, Hector, and avenge Hector’s death. Helen was to be put to death by the king of Sparta but she claimed
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