... which has been defeated by the Achaeans and the husbandless Trojan women are waiting to be enslaved. The chorus in this play is composed of the Trojan women who uniformly despise the Greek captors and wish to return to Troy and their husbands. Euripides uses the chorus to reveal the horrible treatment of the fearful and hopeless women who have lost their city, their husbands, and their children, and are awaiting slavery to their enemies. For example, the leader of the chorus blatantly describes how "shuddering fear grips the hearts of the Trojan women within, who are bemoaning their slavery" (Euripides, The Trojan Women 260). Their hope is lost and their lives are lost; according to these women, they are being hurled into their worst nightmare. In addition, they have no idea who their new masters will be and where they will be taken. Discomfiting, the chorus laments, "At the ...

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