Trojan Women, Euripides
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-05-20

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Trojan Women (translated by E.P. Coleridge, revised by members of Kosmos Society). Danai Epithymiadi, Tabatha Gayle, Robert Matney, Evelyn Miller, and Eunice Roberts perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis) and Robin Mitchell-Boyask (Temple) leading the discussion. 

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Text available at https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/?p=1496#trojan

Scene selections:
98-155 Hecuba’ first speech
235-460 Hecuba, Talthybius, Cassandra, Chorus
686-797 Hecuba, Andromache, Talthybius, Chorus
1118-1335 Hecuba, Talthybius, Chorus

Credits: 
Hecuba - Eunice Roberts
Talthybios - Robert Matney
Cassandra - Evelyn Miller
Andromache - Tabatha Gayle
Chorus - Danai Epithymiadi

Director - Paul O'Mahony

More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081

Suggested further reading:
1) Goff, B. 2009. Euripides: Trojan Women. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth.

2) Roisman, J. 1997. "Contemporary allusions in Euripides’ Trojan Women." Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 15:38–47. 

3) Hope Through Tragedy. Euripides' Trojan Women as Refugee Theater by Paul Eberwine: https://eidolon.pub/hope-through-tragedy-5608605009cc