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The Trojan Women

by Euripides · 2006

"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's introduction and notes." "Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole… more

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Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?
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Necio es el mortal que, creyéndose siempre feliz, se abandona al placer: la fortuna, cual furiosa delirante, salta aquí y allá, y a ninguno concede perpetua dicha
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There liveth not in my life any more The hope that others have. Nor will I tell The lie to mine own heart, that aught is well Or shall be well…. Yet, O, to dream were sweet!
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...I'd never want my muse to be a singer of nothing but disaster.
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Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope.
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Would ye be wise, ye Cities, fly from war!
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And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!
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No, child, you’re wrong. They’re not the same. Life means hope, death is nothing at all.
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My legs are trembling, but I won't fall
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Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be.
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CASSANDRA: Down to the dead I go victorious, ruining the house of Atreus that ruined us.
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when all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.
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An homecoming that striveth ever more And cometh to no home.
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What epitaph, I wonder, would a poet write for him?
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"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's introduction and notes." "Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world from his." The theme is really a double the suffering of the victims of war, exemplified by the woman who survive the fall of Troy, and the degradation of the victors, shown by the Greeks' reckless and ultimately self-destructive behavior. It offers an enduring picture of human fortitude in the midst of despair.

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First published
2006
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Euripides
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