1# *Women of Troy* Quotes 2 3## Hope, Despair, Suffering 4 5 6### Life and death 7 8"The lucky ones are dead" 9"Visionary ecstasy" 10"She is happier dead than I am living" 11 12### General complaining 13 14"After so many sorrows, and in such despiar, words mean nothing" 15"My song has become a scream" 16"Who will be my master?" 17 18### Astyanax rip 19 20"What a wretched, meaningless death" 21 22### Violence and graphic imagery 23 24"Butchered like an animal" - re. Polyxena 25"blood is still oozing" - Astyanax' death 26 27## Inhumanity, Morality, Decency 28 29"I took the opportunity to wash the body" 30"There is no decent way to say an indencent thing" 31"It degrades the decency of speech" 32"I'm not half hard enough" 33"Poor woman. You've suffered so much" - Talthybius 34 35## Power, Strength, Weakness 36 37"I shall make the Greeks' return home a disaster" 38"I do not sleep on a royal mattress anymore" 39"were you so frightened of a child that you had to invent this unheard of savagery" 40"There is nothing left worth a God's consideration" 41 42## Men and Women 43 44"a whole generation of women, raped in their own bedrooms" 45 46