Chorus of Trojan Women
group · 1 work · 2 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Chorus · Chorus Leader · First Semi-Chorus · Second Semi-Chorus · captive Trojan women · you maids of Phrygia
in the texts
The Trojan Women
The collective body of captive Trojan women, functioning as chorus and semi-choruses, who mourn Troy's fall, question their coming enslavement, and narrate the city's destruction.
for now I will uplift for Troy a piteous chant, telling how I met my doom and fell a wretched captive to the Argives by reason of a four-footed beast that moved on wheels, when Achaea’s sons left at our.
but you beside the throne of Zeus are sitting with a calm, sweet smile upon your fair young face, while the spear of Hellas has destroyed the land of Priam.
when there rang along the town a cry of death which filled the homes of Troy, and babies in terror clung about their mothers’ skirts, as forth from their ambush came the warrior-band, the handiwork of maiden Pallas.