Word: peloponnesian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...against war ever written. It depicts the effect of war upon four women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, and Cassandra, who have had their homes destroyed and are being led away into captivity. The whole play is aimed as a protest against the conditions of strife in Greece due to the Peloponnesian War. It shows that Euripides and the other thinkers of his time could see the horror and misery of war behind its glamour and allurements, just as many men today are beginning to see. In other words the cycle of modern thought has swung around to where...