Euripide, <em>Troiane</em> 506-509: dal testo alla scena

Abstract

In Eur. Tr. 506-509, according to the prevailing interpretation, Hecuba, prisoner in the Achaean camp, asks to fall to the ground and lay her head on a “stony pillow”, where, collapsing, she would cry her heart out. However, it is possible to demonstrate that Hecuba hopes to leave this transitional place and the prospect of captivity, and to reach, within burning Troy, a “stony veil”: at the same time a in which to devote herself to grief.