Leaders in a novel set during this conflict use political euphemisms like "neutralized" or "marginalized.
Leaders in a novel set during this conflict use political euphemisms like "neutralized" or "marginalized." Sections titled "Dressing Up" and "The Heavy Burden of Command" appear in Barry Unsworth's novel The Songs of the Kings, which is set before this conflict. A play about this event by Jean Giraudoux was criticized by Paul Claudel for its "defense of cowardice and peace at any price"; that play compares destiny to a (*) tiger waiting at the gates, and claims that the titular conflict "will not take place." A long section in a poem about this work is known as the "catalogue of ships." Cressida is traded for a prisoner of war during this conflict, and in another play about it, a soldier brings one of the titular women the crushed body of her infant son Astyanax. For 10 points each, name this ancient war which serves as the topic of plays by Euripides and an epic poem by Homer.
Leaders in a novel set during this conflict use political euphemisms like "neutralized" or "marginalized.
the Trojan War