The Trojan Women (, Trōiades ), also known as Troades, is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides.

The dialogue often contrasts so strongly with the mythical and heroic setting, it looks as if Euripides aimed at parody, as for example in The Trojan Women, where the heroine's rationalized prayer provokes comment from Menelaus:

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

P contains all the extant plays of Euripides, L is missing The Trojan Women and latter part of The Bacchae.

He seems not to have used it in his early plays at all, The Trojan Women being the earliest appearance of it in an extant play-it's symptomatic of a curious archaizing tendency evident in his later works.

* The Trojan Women / Les Troyennes ( 1965 )

Euripides also expressed strong anti-war ideas in his work, especially The Trojan Women.

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

* Patrick Magee portrayed Menelaus in the 1971 film of The Trojan Women.

In Euripides ' play Trojan Women, written in 415 B. C., the god Poseidon proclaims, “ For, from his home beneath Parnassus, Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed host, and sent it within the battlements, fraught with death ; whence in days to come men shall tell of ' the wooden horse ,' with its hidden load of warriors .”

* In 1971, Michael Cacoyannis directed a film version of The Trojan Women in which Helen is played by Irene Papas.

Highlights of Redgrave's early film career include her first starring role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( for which she earned an Oscar nomination, a Cannes award, a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Film Award nomination ); her portrayal of a cool London swinger in 1966's Blowup ; her spirited portrayal of dancer Isadora Duncan in Isadora ( for which she won a National Society of Film Critics ' Award for Best Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival, along with a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination in 1969 ); and various portrayals of historical figures – ranging from Andromache in The Trojan Women, to Mary, Queen of Scots in the film of the same name.

Euripedes, conversely, used plays to challenge societal norms and mores — a hallmark of much of Western literature for the next 2, 300 years and beyond — and his works such as Medea, The Bacchae and The Trojan Women are still notable for their ability to challenge our perceptions of propriety, gender, and war.

* Euripides ' play The Trojan Women is performed shortly after the massacre by Athenians of the male population of Melos.

Hecuba is a main character in two plays by Euripides: The Trojan Women and Hecuba.

The Trojan Women describes the aftermath of the fall of Troy, including Hecuba's enslavement by Odysseus.

* Hecuba and The Trojan Women, plays by Euripides

* Euripides, " Trojan Women "

According to Euripides, however, in his plays The Trojan Women and Hecuba, Polyxena's famous death was caused at the end of the Trojan War.

Mentioned briefly in Euripides ' plays Trojan Women and Hecuba, simply stating that Andromache, wife of Hector, was his promised spear bride.

The Trojan Women.

In Euripides ' The Trojan Women, Andromache despairs at the murder of her son Astyanax and is then given to Neoptolemus as a concubine.

Aomawa Baker ( Andromache ) in Euripides ' The Trojan Women, directed by Brad Mays at the ARK Theatre Company in Los Angeles, 2003

She was portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave in the 1971 film version of Euripides ' The Trojan Women, and by Saffron Burrows in the 2004 film Troy.