A work by the obscure author Xenocles bafflingly won first prize at the 415 BC City Dionysia over the tetralogy that this play forms with (*) Alexander, Palamedes, and Sisyphus.
A character in this play unusually prays to a god whom she addresses as "the fixed law of Nature or man's Mind," a pointed reference to contemporary schools of philosophy. A character in this play first appears singing a demented parody of a wedding hymn while brandishing a flaming torch in each hand, and later mirrors a gesture from Agamemnon by ripping off her woolen headbands and casting them to the wind. A work by the obscure author Xenocles bafflingly won first prize at the 415 BC City Dionysia over the tetralogy that this play forms with (*) Alexander, Palamedes, and Sisyphus. Near the end of this play, the herald Talthybius balances the corpse of the infant Astyanax on Hector's shield, and Menelaus declares that he will take one of the title characters back to Sparta to execute her. For 10 points, name this tragedy about the fates of Andromache, Cassandra, Helen, and Hecuba, written by Euripides.
A character in this play unusually prays to a god whom she addresses as "the fixed law of Nature or man's Mind," a pointed reference to contemporary schools of philosophy.
The Trojan Women [or Troades]