Trojan Women (Euripides)

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ancient Greek tragedy play

Trojan Women is a tragedy by Euripides that portrays the suffering and despair of the women of Troy in the aftermath of the city's destruction in the Trojan War.

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All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
The Trojan Women 10
Trojan Women 3
Euripides' Trojan Women 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek tragedy ⓘ
play ⓘ
associatedWithWar Trojan War ⓘ
author Euripides ⓘ
basedOn mythological cycle of the Trojan War ⓘ
centralCharacter Hecuba ⓘ
chorus Trojan women captives ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
depictsEvent division of Trojan captives among Greek leaders ⓘ
enslavement of Trojan women ⓘ
murder of Astyanax ⓘ
featuresCharacter Andromache (Euripides) ⓘ
surface form: Andromache

Athena ⓘ
Cassandra ⓘ
Hecuba ⓘ
Helen ⓘ
Menelaus ⓘ
Poseidon ⓘ
Talthybius ⓘ
firstPerformanceContext City Dionysia ⓘ
surface form: City Dionysia festival
firstPerformancePlace Athens ⓘ
firstPerformanceYear 415 BC ⓘ
genre tragedy ⓘ
hasAdaptation Trojan Women (Euripides) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The Trojan Women (1971 film)

Trojan Women (Euripides) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The Trojan Women (various stage adaptations)
hasInfluenced feminist interpretations of classical tragedy ⓘ
modern anti-war drama ⓘ
literaryForm verse drama ⓘ
literaryPeriod Classical Greek literature ⓘ
mainTheme critique of war and imperialism ⓘ
fate and powerlessness ⓘ
misery of enslaved women ⓘ
suffering of war victims ⓘ
narrativeFocus aftermath of war rather than battles ⓘ
originalLanguage Ancient Greek ⓘ
originalTitle Τρῳάδες ⓘ
partOf tetralogy with Alexander, Palamedes, and Sisyphus ⓘ
prologueSpeakers Athena ⓘ
Poseidon ⓘ
relatedWork Andromache (Euripides) ⓘ
Hecuba (Euripides) ⓘ
Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
surface form: The Aeneid

Homer's Iliad ⓘ
surface form: The Iliad
setting after the fall of Troy ⓘ
ruins of Troy ⓘ
survivingStatus extant complete play by Euripides ⓘ
timePeriodDepicted mythical age of heroes ⓘ
title Trojan Women (Euripides) self-link ⓘ
surface form: Trojan Women

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Odysseus → literaryWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
Irene Papas → notableWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Euripides → notableWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Cassandra → literaryAppearance → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Euripides’ Trojan Women
Trojan War → relatedWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Trojan Women
Trojan Women (Euripides) → title → Trojan Women (Euripides) self-link ⓘ
subject surface form: Trojan Women
this entity surface form: Trojan Women
Trojan Women (Euripides) → hasAdaptation → Trojan Women (Euripides) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Trojan Women
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women (1971 film)
Trojan Women (Euripides) → hasAdaptation → Trojan Women (Euripides) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Trojan Women
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women (various stage adaptations)
Hecuba (Euripides) → relatedWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Eirini Lelekou → notableWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Michael Cacoyannis → notableWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Michael Cacoyannis → directed → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Helen of Troy in The Trojan Women → appearsIn → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Andromache → relatedWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
subject surface form: Andromache (play)
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Troades → relatedWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Troades → hasChorus → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Trojan women
Troades → workTitleInEnglish → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Trojan Women
Sybil Thorndike → notableWork → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Trojan Women
Polyxena → mentionedIn → Trojan Women (Euripides) ⓘ
this entity surface form: Euripides' Trojan Women