Andromache (play)

Andromache
Andromache
	Captive Andromache (detail); by Frederic Leighton
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]

^ Ley (2007, 112).
^ Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 107. ark:/13960/t9f47mp93.
^ Walton (1997, xi–xii).

[1] Ley (2007, 112).

[2] Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 107. ark:/13960/t9f47mp93.

[3] Walton (1997, xi–xii).

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Andromache
Captive Andromache (detail) by Frederic Leighton
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.