{"product_id":"seneca-s-troades-book-a-j-boyle-9780905205885","title":"Seneca's Troades","description":"Seneca (ca 1 B.C.-A.D. 65) sets his Troades in the immediate  aftermath of the fall of Troy. The Trojan women (the troades)  were to become the prizes of the victorious Greeks. As the play  opens, their husbands and sons dead, their city in ruins, they  wait, lamenting, to be allotted to their new masters. But before  the Greek warriors sail home with their spoils, further horrors  are in store. Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, demands the sacrifice of  the Trojan princess Polyxena as a blood offering to his dead  father. And the prophet Calchas decrees that the little son of Hecuba, wife of the Trojan prince and hero Hector, must be  slaughtered. In this cruel situation the thoughts, actions and  reactions of both sides, Greek men and Trojan women, create the  unfolding drama. The themes of power, culture, freedom, delusion,  history and death make Troades a brilliant piece of theatre,  whose concerns speak as directly now as they did to the  spectacular, histrionic and self-consuming world of early imperial Rome. The English translation, like that of Boyle's earlier Phaedra  edition, is printed facing the Latin and aims at verbal and stylistic fidelity. The introduction and detailed commentary fill  in the play's background for students of Latin and of Roman  civilisation, and for the generally interested reader.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50338776318225,"sku":"CIN090520588XVG","price":23.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52068458332433,"sku":"GOR011541599","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53250493776145,"sku":"GOR007364995","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/090520588X.jpg?v=1751139792","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/seneca-s-troades-book-a-j-boyle-9780905205885","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}