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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:
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.
* Troades ( The Trojan Women )
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.

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Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.
She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.
On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it, an insult for which he never forgave them.
When the Greek fleet was preparing at Aulis to depart for Troy to begin the Trojan War, Artemis becalmed the winds.
* Cleopatra and Periboea of Locris, two maidens sent to the Trojan temple of Athena in retribution for Ajax the Lesser's sacrilege
In Greek mythology, Hectōr (), or Hektōr, was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War.
:" I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them ; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.
The excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik in the late 19th century provided initial evidence to scholars that there was an historical basis for the Trojan War.
The blinding and mocking of Polyphemos called down the nemesis of Poseidon upon Odysseus ; Poseidon already bore Odysseus a grudge for not giving him a sacrifice when Poseidon prevented the Greeks from being discovered inside the Trojan Horse.
They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.
It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer.
" A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology ".
He is most famous for the ten eventful years he took to return home after the ten-year Trojan War and his famous Trojan Horse trick.
In the Aeneid, Neptune is still resentful of the wandering Trojans, but is not as vindictive as Juno, and in Book I he rescues the Trojan fleet from the goddess's attempts to wreck it, although his primary motivation for doing this is his annoyance at Juno's having intruded into his domain.
Even though Poseidon fought on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War, he bore Odysseus a grudge for not giving him a sacrifice when Poseidon prevented them from being discovered inside of the Trojan Horse.
Homer's Iliad describes Greek and Trojan soldiers offering rewards of wealth to enemies who have defeated them on the battlefield in exchange for mercy, but this is not always accepted.
Faisal Husseini, former Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem, compared the al-Aqsa intifada following the Oslo peace process to the tactic of coming out of the Trojan Horse used by the Greeks in the myth of the Trojan War.
In his Encomium to Helen, Gorgias even applied rhetoric to fiction by seeking for his own pleasure to prove the blamelessness of the mythical Helen of Troy in starting the Trojan War.

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