Europides' "The Trojan Woman"

Euripides' play The Trojan Women, is not so much a tragic story as a portrayal of a tragic situation whereby Euripides dramatizes the postwar conditions of these women of Troy, the spoils of war. In this play, the slave women possess a nobility of mind that stands in striking contrast to the inhumanity of the victorious Greek warriors. It also vividly recounts the final moments of Trojan civilization in the aftermath of the city’s sacking by the invading Greeks.It was written in the middle of the Peloponnesian War (431-405) and produced in the competitions of the festival of Dionysos in spring of 415, just months before the Athenians launched their great attack against Syracuse and Sicily. If The Trojan Women is a war play, it is not about a specific war; it is about all wars.