Τρῳάδες

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Τρῳάδες is the original Ancient Greek title of Euripides’ tragedy commonly known in English as "The Trojan Women," which portrays the suffering of Trojan women after the fall of Troy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek tragedy
literary work
play
associatedWith Peloponnesian War era Athens
author Euripides
basedOn mythological cycle of the Trojan War
centralEvent allocation of Trojan women as slaves
death of Astyanax
destruction of Troy
culturalContext Athenian drama
featuresCharacter Andromache
Athena
Cassandra
Hecuba
Helen
Menelaus
Poseidon
Talthybius
firstPerformanceFestival City Dionysia
firstPerformancePlace Athens
focusesOn Trojan women
genre tragedy
hasAlternativeName Troades
Trojan Women
hasChorus Trojan women
hasForm verse drama
hasInfluenced later adaptations of Trojan War myths
hasSubject fate and the gods
power and powerlessness
women in war
literaryPeriod Classical Greek literature
literaryTradition Greek tragedy
mainTheme aftermath of war
grief and loss
slavery and exile
suffering of Trojan women
narrativeTime immediately after the sack of Troy
originalLanguage Ancient Greek
partOf Attic tragedy tradition
linked to: Greek tragedy
portrays enslavement of women
moral cost of war
victims of war
setting Troy
after the fall of Troy
titleInAncientGreek Τρῳάδες
titleInEnglish The Trojan Women

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Trojan Women originalTitle Τρῳάδες
subject linked to: Trojan Women (Euripides)
Τρῳάδες titleInAncientGreek Τρῳάδες