Roman Tragedy VI: Seneca’s Troades, or Not Euripides’s Trojan Women

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inRoman Tragedy, The Romans

Seneca merges two of Euripides’s plays about the end of the Trojan War with mixed results.

Discussion Prompts

  1. Helen states that she finds herself “compelled to hurt the Trojans.” What do you think this means about how she originally came to Troy? Did she come willingly? Or not?
  2. What do you think of the portrayal of Agamemnon in this telling?
  3. Who is the best stoic in this play? Who is the worst? Why?
  4. Directing questions: How would you produce this play? Vision? Dream cast? How would you fill in the flatness? Etc.?
  5. Which Trojan Women do you prefer – Seneca or Euripides? Why?
  6. If you were to write a literary analysis of this play, what aspect would you focus on?

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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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