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Posted by /u/afrophysicist

When Euripidies wrote The Trojan Woman, a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy, was there a contemporary backlash against this, similar to what we would recognise today?

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When Euripidies wrote The Trojan Woman, a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy, was there a contemporary backlash against this, similar to what we would recognise today? | Infolitico