Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation)
Author: last_name: Euripides
Language: English
Year: 1906

Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as "perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written," "The Trojan Women," also known as "Troades," is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier that year.  415 BC was also the year of the scandalous desecration of the hermai and the A