Obras Dramáticas De Eurípides (2 De 3)

The most devastating portrait of war ever written. Euripides' "Las Troyanas" (The Trojan Women) doesn't show heroes battling on the battlefield, it shows what happens after the fighting ends, when the victors divide the spoils and the defeated endure the consequences. Hécuba, queen of fallen Troy, wakes to find her city burned, her family dead or scattered, and herself a slave to the men who destroyed everything she loved. Around her, the women of Troy wait to learn their fates: which Greek soldier will claim them, which gods will be offended by their presence, whether death might be preferable to the life awaiting them. Written in 415 BCE, this play premiered during the Peloponnesian War, when Athens was suffering its own devastating losses. Euripides understood that every war produces survivors who must live with what the victors have done. The play strips away glory and heroism, revealing the brutal mathematics of conquest through the voices of the conquered, women, children, the elderly, the broken. It asks a question we still struggle with: what do we owe those who have lost everything? This translation preserves the raw power of a play that has retained its force across twenty-five centuries.