The Silence of the Girls
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The Silence of the Girls is a 2018 novel by English novelist Pat Barker. It recounts the events of the Iliad chiefly from the point of view of Briseis.
First edition (UK)
The Trojan Women
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The Trojan Women is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE. Also translated as The Women of Troy, or as its transliterated Greek title Troades, The Trojan Women presents comm
The Silence of the Girls
…Parts of the closing sequence, describing the fate of Troy's women and the sacrifice of Priam's daughter at Achilles's burial mound, are taken from The Trojan Women by Euripides. The novel features appearances by many characters from the Iliad including Priam, Nestor, Ajax the Great, Agamemnon, and Helen of Troy…
An engraving of the death of Astyanax
Sacrifice of Polyxena by the Greeks on an Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora
Neoptolemus killing Priam and Astyanax
Willow Hale (Hecuba) and Sterling Wolfe (Talthybius) in The Trojan Women, directed by Brad Mays at the ARK Theatre Company (2003)