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Classical Greek Dramas of
the Trojan War
In ancient Greece, Homer’s version of events were viewed as being
based on historical fact and in the fifth century BC, playwrights in Athens
frequently used stories of Troy as the basis for their dramas. There were
many variant legends about each of the Trojan heroes, so the plays tell
different stories based on the same events, such as: - Euripides' two
plays about the sacrifice (or survival) of Iphigenia and Aeschylus’
Agamemnon.
These notes are based on and extracted by permission
from Dianne Thompson’s pages on the Northern Virginia Community College
site TROY - Medieval Trojan Romance - http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/Troy/troysites.html
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