Trojan Women Quotes 1
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- Trojan Women
- Hecabe
- 'Am I not in anguish and should I not lament' Hecabe
- Suffering
- 'shall I be set to keep watch at some doorway or given charge over children I who reigned as Queen in Troy' Hecabe
- Peripeteia
- 'Am I not in anguish and should I not lament' Hecabe
- Cassandra
- 'Agamemnon will find me a wife more hard to bear than Helen ever was. I will kill him' Cassandra
- fate
- Helen
- 'She is the murderer of Priam' ...'she is the one who has driven wretched Hecabe on to this shore of ruin' Hecabe (about Helen)
- Focusing on sparta
- 'Never to the swirling Eurotas, the loathsome dwelling of Helen, to face slavery under Menelaus, sacker of Troy' Chorus
- Menelaus
- Helen
- 'She is the murderer of Priam' ...'she is the one who has driven wretched Hecabe on to this shore of ruin' Hecabe (about Helen)
- Focusing on sparta
- 'Never to the swirling Eurotas, the loathsome dwelling of Helen, to face slavery under Menelaus, sacker of Troy' Chorus
- Menelaus
- 'Never to the swirling Eurotas, the loathsome dwelling of Helen, to face slavery under Menelaus, sacker of Troy' Chorus
- Focusing on sparta
- 'She is the murderer of Priam' ...'she is the one who has driven wretched Hecabe on to this shore of ruin' Hecabe (about Helen)
- 'Never to the swirling Eurotas, the loathsome dwelling of Helen, to face slavery under Menelaus, sacker of Troy' Chorus
- Focusing on sparta
- 'She is the murderer of Priam' ...'she is the one who has driven wretched Hecabe on to this shore of ruin' Hecabe (about Helen)
- 'the conflict that will see a mother killed thanks to my wedding' Cassandra
- fate
- 'I will show that this city is more fortunate than the Greeks' Cassandra
- Sophistry
- 'a foul treacherous master, an enemy of justice, a lawless beast, who with his lying tongue twists everything' Hecabe (about Odysseus)
- Sophistry
- 'Those who fell in battle never saw their children, were never dressed for the grave by loving wives but lie in foreign soil' Cassandra
- 'the Trojans...met death fighting for their homeland' Cassandra
- 'It amuses you to laugh at your misfortunes and chant prophecies' Chorus
- 'Agamemnon will find me a wife more hard to bear than Helen ever was. I will kill him' Cassandra
- Talthybius
- 'Hers is a happy state' Talthybius
- Sophistry
- 'a foul treacherous master, an enemy of justice, a lawless beast, who with his lying tongue twists everything' Hecabe (about Odysseus)
- Hatred for Greeks
- But not for Athens
- 'Theseus' sacred land, so loved by heaven' Chorus
- But not for Athens
- Suffering
- gods
- 'If Pallas, child of Zeus, had not brought ruin on you, you would be standing on your foundations still' Poseidon
- 'Why these sudden leaps from one mood to another?' Poseidon (to Athene)
- Peripeteia
- Death better than life with no hope?
- 'Hers is a happy state' Talthybius
- Hecabe
- 'If Pallas, child of Zeus, had not brought ruin on you, you would be standing on your foundations still' Poseidon
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