Troades by Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Audiobook
Troades (or The Trojan Women) is a Latin verse drama by Seneca the
Younger. It is partly based on Euripedes' tragedy of the same name.
The
long and toilsome siege of Troy is done. Her stately palaces and
massive walls have been overthrown and lie darkening the sky with their
still smouldering ruins. Her heroic defenders are either slain or
scattered seeking other homes in distant lands. The victorious Greeks
have gathered the rich spoils of Troy upon the shore, among these, the
Trojan women who have suffered the usual fate of women when a city is
sacked. They await the lot which shall assign them to their Grecian
lords and scatter them among the cities of their foes. All things are
ready for the start.
But now the ghost of Achilles has risen from
the tomb, and demanded that Polyxena be sacrificed to him before the
Greeks shall be allowed to sail away. And Calchas, also, bids that
Astyanax be slain, for only thus can Greece be safe from any future
Trojan war. And thus the Trojan captives who have so long endured the
pains of war, must suffer still this double tragedy. (Summary by Alan
Mapstone and the translator) Summary by Alan Mapstone
Cast list
Hecuba:
WendyKatzHiller
Andromache:
Agnes Robert Behr
Helena:
ShrimpPhish
Agamemnon:
Greg Giordano
Pyrrhus:
Beeswaxcandle
Ulysses:
Adrian Stephens
Calchas:
Algy Pug
Talthybius:
Larry Wilson
Old Man:
Alan Mapstone
Astyanax:
Inkell
Messenger:
Robert Cheyne
Chorus:
dc
Chorus:
Rapunzelina
Chorus:
Winnifred Assmann
Narration:
Alan Mapstone
Audio Editor:
Alan Maptone
M4B Audiobook (46MB)
