his two different Helen characters to describe to his audience that there are always two sides of “innocence” and “complicity” imbedded in war.
Two years before Euripides’ second play, Women of Troy, Athens attacked an island off the coast of Greece called Melos. The small island was ransacked, slaughtered, and enslaved simply because the islanders refused to support Athens’ role in the Peloponnese War. During this siege, Euripides would have witnessed the mass number of enslaved women and children…
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