Andromache | |
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Written by | Euripides |
Chorus | Women of Phthia |
Characters | Andromache Maid Hermione Menelaus Molossus Peleus Nurse of Hermione Orestes Messenger Thetis |
Original language | Ancient Greek |
Subject | Andromache's life as a slave |
Genre | Athenian tragedy |
Setting | Phthia in Thessaly (northern Greece) before the temple of Thetis. |
Andromache (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides. It dramatises Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione. The date of its first performance is unknown. Some scholars place the date sometime between 428 and 425 BC.[1] Müller places it between 420 and 417 BC.[2] A Byzantine scholion to the play suggests that its first production was staged outside Athens, though modern scholarship regards this claim as dubious.[3]