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"Following the conquest of Troy, its sole survivors, all women, have been enslaved by the Greeks. Mourning their families and their fate, they grapple with the trauma they have witnessed and contemplate a future far from home. Though the aftermath of the Trojan War was extensively depicted in ancient Greek epic, lyric poetry, and art, it is especially heartrending in the hands of Euripides. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's Complete Greek Tragedies series, this book presents Richmond Lattimore's celebrated translation of a play whose antiwar message continues to inspire and resonate today. An introduction by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most provides essential information about the play's first production, plot, and reception in antiquity"--
