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In four pages this paper examines plays written before and after the Trojan War in a consideration of the experience as perceived by Greek tragedian Euripides. Only these student supplied sources are used and citation information is therefore limited.
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the exception of the roles of mothers, daughters, wives, concubines, and slaves, as defined by men. Greek tragedian Euripides (480-406 BC?) may well have been the first feminist because
many of his dramas showcased the ravages of war in terms of how the women were affected. Women were never consulted on any matter; men made wars, fought them,
and then afterwards the male victors would determine the fate of all women impacted by the conflict. As seen through the eyes of Euripides in such plays as Iphigenia
at Aulis, which takes place during the Trojan War, and The Trojan Women, which focuses upon the aftermath of the war, Euripides depicts women as oppressed by a military patriarchy.
The men who died were celebrated as heroes while the women who were not sacrificed or awarded as war prizes were supposed to bury their husbands and sons before
being offered into slavery. As portrayed by Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis takes place during The Trojan War, and when the Greek campaign headed by King Agamemnon is stalled at Aulis
because the angry goddess Artemis halted the winds that prevented their sea passage, Agamemnon decrees, "Iphigenia, my own daughter, must be sacrificed to Artemis... and not otherwise, we could sail
away and sack Phrygia" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 358). He writes to his wife Clytemnestra and tells her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis in order to be married to
Achaean war hero Achilles as a "pretext... in order to get the girl" (Euripides "Iphigenia at Aulis" 359). After the communication has been sent, Agamemnon begins to have second
thoughts, which does not please his brother Menelaus, who is still reeling from losing his wife to Trojan Prince Paris. The brothers argue, and eventually Menelaus softens his stance,
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