STUDY QUESTIONS FOR TROJAN WOMEN, HECUBA AND ANDROMACHE:

1. What is the point of all this misery and woe? What is the connection, if any, between misery and tragedy?

2. What emotions are the different plays meant to arouse? How? Why does Euripides try to stir these emotions in his audiences? What is trying to accomplish?

3. Are there any heroes here? Who are they? What makes them heroes? If there are no heroes, what keeps the likely candidates from being heroes?

4. What is each of these plays about? What issue or issues does each raise? What will we talk about afterwards?

5. What are the principal character or characters in each of these plays like? How does Euripides convey this information to his audiences?

6. What is/are the role(s) of the gods in these plays?

7. Why is Neoptolemus killed off in the Andromache?