The Trojan Women by Euripides

... Yr. 13 Drama and Theatre Studies - Unit 6 The Trojan Women by Euripides Euripides: He was born about 484. Later in life he married a woman named Melito, and they had three sons. In 408 he left Athens for Macedonia, probably because of disgust with the seemingly endless Peloponnesian War. Euripides is believed to have written 92 dramas, but only 19 of them are now known. They show him to have been a tragedian of incomparable merit. He saw the world as a place where chance, order, and reason were constantly thwarted by unreason and passion. He was aware of so much meaningless suffering and tragedy that his view of life verged on despair. He was especially troubled by the ferocity and folly of the Peloponnesian War, which broke out in 431 BC and outlasted his life. As with those of the other tragedians, the plays of Euripides deal with legendary and mythological

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