Trojan Women, The

American  

noun

1. a tragedy (415 b.c.) by Euripides.

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Example Sentences

Ong wanted to situate Helen as an outsider, separate from and vilified by the Trojan women, the survivors of the war.

From The Guardian

After Troy Shaw, Until 23 AprilBox office: 020-7666 9037 In The Trojan Women, the surviving royal women must deal with the loss of their slaughtered sons, husbands and brothers while awaiting transportation to a life of slavery in Greece; in the less well-known Hecuba, King Priam's widow sees her daughter, Polyxena, sacrificed to appease the ghost of Achilles, who the Greeks believe is preventing a homeward wind from blowing.

From The Guardian

All wars would have ended 2,000 years ago with The Trojan Women�the greatest and most moving antiwar play ever written.

From Time Magazine Archive

It should also be noted that the production of the Hippolytus was followed up by the production of the Trojan Women, the Electra and the Medea of Euripides, all translated by Gilbert Murray.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Mahaffy, it is true, tells us that Pericles used to present peacocks to the great ladies of Athenian society in order to induce them to sit to his friend Phidias, and we know that Polygnotus introduced into his picture of the Trojan women the face of Elpinice, the celebrated sister of the great Conservative leader of the day, but these grandes dames clearly do not come under our category. 

From Project Gutenberg