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Classical Drama
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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, hadn't she? So, where did
she learn to speak our language so well? Majored in Greek at Troy State perhaps?"
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