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Classical Drama and Theatre
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Among the reasons Euripides brought the Phrygian Slave on stage must be that he served as a brutal indictment of Aeschylus' Cassandra in Agamemnon, as if Euripides were saying, "Now, this stammering steward is more like it, isn't it, Aeschylus, instead of your eloquent prophetess, the silent-screaming-prognosticator of Agamemnon's doom? After all, she'd only been in Greece a few hours when you bring her on stage? So, where did she learn to speak our language so well? Majored in Greek at Troy State perhaps?"
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