Euripides and his tragedy "The Trojan Women"

Euripides was an ancient Greek writer of tragedies the thrid of the famous trio. He wrote about the women and mythological themes like Medea and Helen of Troy. The purpose for "The Trojan Women" was to be a prophecy of tragedy to shock the Athens to ther senses. The slave women posses a nobility of mind that stands in striking to the inhumanity of the victorious Greek warriors. The drama, ruthless in its depictions, put the idea of hope as a virtue. And self delusion and folly.

In the introduction of the story Poseidon expresses remorse/nostalgia for Troy. Then next Athena and Poseidon decide why Athena is angry with the Greek army, her intentions, and what Poseidon agrees to do. Then the second act Hecuba is trying to figure out her own daughter, and what suspects about her own fate. Later on Cassandra makes a prediction about Odysseus; later Andromache calls for help, Andromache tells about her death. And then Menelaus strides into the story into Hecuba's response. In addition to having Talthybius enter into the story with the broken corpse of Astyanax.

The Massacre at Melos

The position of Melos, is between Greece and Crete. Is a well known Bronze Age sit eof Phylakopi on the north east coast. The Melians sent a Greek fleet at Salamis. In 415 BC the Athenians had attacked the island and compelled the Melians to surrender, slew all of the men that were capable of bearing arms, and made slaves of the women and the children.

War and Outcome

The defeat of the Persians, left the Greek world to come to be divided into two major camps. The Athenian Empire and Sparta. They both had two very different kinds of societies and neither could tolerate the other. Which this led into the outbreak of the Great Peloponnessian War in 431 BC. They both thought that they both had winning strategies. In second year of the war, a plague broke out in overly crowded Athens, killing more than a third of the people. The war weakened the major Greek states and ruined possibility of cooperation among them. This was also the second Peloponnesian war.