With Troy in ruins, the Trojan women mourn their city’s fall as they wait to learn what their future holds. Among them, old Hecuba, exhausted and resigned to her fate, bears the burden of a long life lived from glorious past to tragic present upon her aged shoulders. Framed by the vivid contrasts of his narratives of past glories and present torments, Euripides’ plot unfolds as a slow-motion journey towards absolute pain.
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