WorkEuripides

Trojan Women

Trojan Women (415 BCE)

Euripides (c. 480–406 BCE) · 415 BCE

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Documented 1845

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  • undatedThe Trojan WomenDemonstrated

    “In the "Trojan dames" there are fine touches of nature with regard to Cassandra. Hecuba shows that mixture of shame and reverence...”

    Woman in the Nineteenth Century

    Substantial nested excerpt (~88-line span) within the large Euripides translation block.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1844
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“In the Trojan Dames, there are fine touches of nature with regard to Cassandra... "The maiden of Phoebus, to whom the golden haired / Gave as a privilege a virgin life"...”

Inferred Author inferred from the title, 'Trojan Dames' (= Euripides' Trojan Women).

“In the "Trojan dames" there are fine touches of nature with regard to Cassandra... "The virgin of Apollo..." [...] Andromache to her child: "Dost thou weep, / My son?”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.