Greek Tragedy XXI: Euripides’s Andromache, or If Euripides and Clare Boothe Luce Wrote a Play Together

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If Euripides had helped Clare Boothe Luce to write The Women, Andromache might have been the result, only with more witty ripostes.

Discussion Prompts
  1. AP Credit: Discuss how xenophobia is presented in this play.
  2. If you were staging this play today, where and when would you set it? Why?
  3. Which character do you like better: Hermione or Andromache? Why?
  4. Related to the previous question, but slightly different. Which character would you rather play: Hermione or Andromache? Why?
  5. We have very little source material about Hermione. How would you write the rest of her story?
  6. What does this play tell us about the double standard of how men and women are treated when it comes to extramarital relationships? How does (or does not) consent come into play in that double standard?
  7. What does Peleus’s argument say about standards within the law, at least as far as property is concerned?
  8. What does this play tell us about motherhood in ancient Greece?

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I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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