The complete online text of The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides.

Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the nimb...

Of the three poets of Greek tragedy whose work survives, Euripides is the one whose plays survive in the largest number (eighteen, in contrast to seven each for Aeschylus and Sophocles). His plays are notable for containing both tragic pathos and the nim...

Euripides (480-406 BC) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the Greek poets. He is certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times. Euripides was the son of Mnesarchus. The family owned property on the is...

Euripides' lyrical anti-war play gets tragically emotional TROJAN WOMEN By Euripides HSA Theater 645 St. Nicholas Avenue 212.868.4444 CRIES OF WAR With more songs, chants, and dirges than any other extant Greek tragedy, Euripides' Trojan Women is...

Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer Joseph Stalin remarked that "a single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." That cheery sentiment came to mind at intermission of Frank Theatre's production of "The Women of Troy," an adaptation by artistic...

For those of us who care about Martha Graham, it’s been a bumpy ride. I got on board in 1958, the year of Graham’s full-evening dance-drama Clytemnestra, the first work of hers I ever saw. To some Graham purists it was suspect—“a bit Hollywood,” as...