Plutarch relates how the tyrant Alexander of Pherae once left a performance of this play in shame.
Plutarch relates how the tyrant Alexander of Pherae once left a performance of this play in shame. One character in this play pounds her fists on the ground to make her dead children hear her sorrow. A character in this play is buried on his father's shield rather than a coffin, and his death is related by Talthybius. In its opening scene, the line "Once a city sinks into sad desolation the gods' state sickens also and their worship fades" is declaimed by Poseidon. One character in this play is convinced by another not to commit suicide for the sake of her son Astyanax, although Astyanax is soon thrown from the city walls. One of its title characters learns she will become the concubine of Neoptolemus. For 10 points, name this Euripides tragedy titled for figures like Cassandra, Andromache and Hecuba.
Plutarch relates how the tyrant Alexander of Pherae once left a performance of this play in shame.
The Trojan Women [or Troades]