The Women Of Troy Flashcards
Astyanax future quote
The savior of Troy
Person to kill Astyanax
Someone tough
Menelaus’ view of Hecuba
Old woman
Hecuba current position
Throned in dust
Cassandra description
Consecrated virgin
Andromache reaction to astyanaxs death
Your enemies will kill you and leave your mother in misery
Hated green
A loathe some Greek
New city
And build a new city from the ashes
Menelaus and Hecuba favour
You’re asking a favor… it’s for your sake, be quite clear, that I allow it, not hers
Menelaus listens to Hecuba
I shall do as you say
Green slave
A thing that slaves for the Greeks
Force Cassandra
Force me, by violence, if you have to
Talthybius sympathy
Brought tears to my eyes
Eponymous
In the title
Eg the eponymous women of Troy
Favoring men
Phallocentric
Barbarity synonym
Bellicosity
Pro women
Proto feminist
Against popular opinion
Subversive/counter cultural
No violence
Anti war/ pacifist
Green glory
Kleos
Political condemning message
Polemic
Type of Greek play the women of Troy is
Tragedy
Greek repetition
Epizeuxjs
Emphasise synonyms
Elucidate
Highlight
Warns
Reveals
Criticizes
Condemns
Sympathizes
Epitomize
Praises
Reflects
Exhibits
Shows
Reveals
Framing
Showcasing
Displaying
andromache description
perfect wife
built the city quote
I built this city- Poseidon
troys destruction
a smoking ruin- poseidon
women have no value to the Gods
there is no longer anything left worth a God’s consideration
hecubas face
the true face of misery
tears and dead juxtaposition
unnumbered tears match the numberless dead
andromache revealing polyxena’s death
secretly and brutally murdered
agamemnon’s intentions with cassandra
agamemnon intends to make his concubine
poseidons reaction to cassandra being taken
flouts all religious feeling
greeks return home 2 quotes
I shall make the greeks return home a disaster
I want their voyage home to be a complete disaster
athena offended
I have been insulted, my temple desecrated
euripides opinions on karma
when a man sacks a town and destroys everything, even sacred temples and the tombs of the dead, hes asking for trouble. The same destruction, sooner or later, will fall on his own head
keep going hecuba
lift up your head from the dust, heave up from the earth the weight of your misery
endurance sail extended metaphor thing
we must endure it, flow with the stream, let the new wind fill our sail
throned in…
throned in dust
loss of hope
all hope plundered from my god-cursed ravaged grey head
3 cassandra descriptions
god-crazed daughter
half-crazed state
poor mad thing
howling quotes
what howling, can give tongue to pain no animal could endure
howl! howl! howl!
polyxena’s death euphemism
her fate is settled, all her troubles are over
greeks and what hecuba thinks of their value of the gods
to whom laws of gods and men mean nothing
cassandra revenge quotes 2
will find me more destructive as a wife than ever Helen was
because I’ll kill him, and destroy his whole family, in return
troy vs greeks happiness
this city of Troy is far happier than the whole nation of the Greeks: and ill prove it to you
uncontrollable lust condemnation quote
for the sake of one women, and one moment of uncontrollable lust, sent a hunting party to hunt down Helen, smoke her out, and it cost them tens of thousands dead!”
helen true intentions
ran away and was unfaithful because she wanted to!
greeks family loss
had forgotten what their children looked like
their women died in the loneliness of widowhood
trojans victories
they won the greatest of all glories
they died fighting for their fatherland
how to accept defeat with dignity
any sensible man must hate war, he does his best to avoid it, but if it should come, even if it should end like this, it is no shame for a city, indeed, it is a crown of honour to die nobly, with dignity.
those in power are corrupt
it’s surprising how often those that seem the wisest and of the highest regard, do things which show them to be something a good deal less
talthybius and greek soldiers in general description
lackeys
slaves yourselves, doing great men’s dirty work
gods are bad
betrayers
the gods hate Troy
vindictive gods
money is meaningless
wealth, good fortune, its all worth nothing
luck
the lucky ones are dead hecuba
rape
a whole generation of women raped in their own bedrooms
hecuba loss
I’ve lost my home. I’ve lost my children. Everything.
loot
we are loot, my son and I
whose happier
she’s happier dead than I am living
who has hope
the living at least have hope
dead pain
the dead feel nothing, and no pain can touch them anymore
reputation can be detrimental
but my reputation as the ideal wife reached the Greek camp, and that ruined me
wife betrayal
I spit in the face of any woman who forgets her dead husband
proclamation of love for hector
Hector, my love, you had everything I dreamed of in a husband
description of astyanax’s murder
indecent thing
greatest reluctance
astyanax how he dies
they mean to kill him
thrown from the battlements of Troy
no agency quotes
there’s nothing you can do
I can’t save my own child from death
bury child with honour
if you keep quiet… they might allow you to bury your child decently
wedding
unlucky wedding day… unluckier wedding night
astyanax’s innocence
why are you killing this child?
he’s guilty of nothing
were you so frightened of a child you had to invent this unheard savagery?
one to ten thousand
ten thousand men are dead for one woman, and her hated marriage bed
talthybius soft
I’m not half hard enough
abuse vs honour helen
all I get is vulgar abuse instead of the respect and honour I deserve
rape helen
I was raped, not married
slavery helen
my life in Troy was the most abject slavery
scream
how loudly did you scream?
what hecuba thinks of helen
you’re worthless
death is what she deserves
true meaning of mortality
anyone born mortal and living in this world, who thinks himself prosperous and secure, is a fool
happiness doesnt last forever
no happy man ever stays happy or lucky for long
final resolve
no one would have ever heard of us
old limbs, strengthen yourselves. Your slavery is beginning
march down to the archaean fleet- chorus
trying to sacrifice herself
what could be better for me, the queen of this burning city, than to die in its embrace and make its funeral pyre my own
