Rebecca P-H’s Reviews > Hecuba > Status Update

pretty sure Euripides is just flexing what he can do with dead bodies on stage at this point, which is great for me (person who is writing a dissertation chapter on dead bodies on stage)

the amount of lamenting about being left completely childless that Hecuba is doing while Cassandra is right there in the next tent over...

κἄγωγ᾽ ἄρ᾽ οὐκ ἔθνῃσκον οὗ μ᾽ ἐχρῆν θανεῖν goes so hard. "I am someone who did not die when I should have died" is such an Anne Carson line that I didn't expect that it was such a close translation of the actual Greek.