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   1# Women of Troy
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   3**Euripides (Athens, c. 450 BC)**
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   5## Background
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   7- Set in 415 BC, after Trojan War
   8- Inspired by Homer's Iliad - mythical poem by Homer (Greek poet). Final weeks of war.
   9- 416 BC - Greeks invade Melos (Peloponnesian War). Melians neutral (relationship to Sparta)
  10- Athenians believed they were most civilised society
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  12### Trojan War
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  14- Eris, goddess of discord, gives golden apple to Hera, Athena, Aphrodite
  15- Zeus sends Eris to decide who has apple
  16- Paris/Alexander steals Helen from her husband Menelaus with help of Aphrodite
  17- King Menelaus gathers army
  18- Helen of Sparta becomes Helen of Troy
  19- war lasted 10 years
  20- Achilles & Hector killed
  21- gods take sides & end war
  22- Trojan horse - invented by Athena, executed by Odysseus & Athenians
  23- Trojans had banquet at end of war when Trojan horse arrived
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  25### Euripides
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  27- Athenian, 450 BC
  28- Golden Age - political/artistic/intellectual reneissance
  29- progressive representation of female characters, graphic/uncouth plays
  30- critical of society
  31- Athens attacked by Sparta >5 times
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  36## Characters
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  38**Poseidon** - (careless) god of the sea, built Troy w/ Apollo  
  39**Apollo** - god, affair w/ Cassandra in exchange for persistent foresight  
  40**Athene** - goddess of wisdom - supported Greeks in Battle of Troy  
  41**Hecuba** - widow of Priam, King of Troy. Old & "grey-haired".  
  42**Priam** - husband of Hecuba. 50 kids.  
  43**Alexander** - aka Paris. Son of Priam & Hecuba. Kidnaps Helen from Sparta (most beautiful)  
  44**Cassandra** - their daughter, a prophetess. Manic.  
  45**Andromache** - their daughter-in-law, widow of Hector  
  46**Talthybius** - Greek officer - assigns women  
  47**Menelaus** - King of Sparta  
  48**Helen** - his wife, Trojan, imprisoned  
  49**Chorus** of Trojan women, captured  
  50**Astryanax** - small boy, Hector and Andromache's son  
  51**Greek soldiers**  
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  55- *trojan* - native of Troy
  56- Epeios (Greek) built Trojan horse to defeat King Priam of Troy (city)
  57- Women are captured and enslaved/raped, men are killed
  58- "All the women of Troy who've not yet been allocated are in this building here"
  59- Poseidon & Athene destroy Greece with help from Zeus
  60- Invasion depiction - p.26