Saturday, September 15, 2012

Novel Connects to "Trojan Women"

The other day I was reading the novel The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead. The main character, Sydney, was attendning a Halloween party where she was going as an ancient Greecian. A designer created a dress for her that was deep red and gold, and did not resemble anything ordiniary Athenians would have worn. However, Sydney did think it looked like something the hetaerae would have worn. The hetaerae were sophisticated companions, similar to prostitutes. This reminded me of the excerpt from "The Trojan Women" by Euripides we read in which the women talked about being slaves in their master's beds, alluding to prostitution. Sydney's costume description made me think of something that the characters in "The Trojan Women" could wear.

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