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a group of people standing on top of a stage next to each other in front of a crowd

The stunning cast of "The Trojan Women" broke the romanticized notion of war and emphatically pleaded with men to give up their sick love affair with bloodshed. They succeeded.

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the painting depicts men and women in ancient greek dress

Throughout his career Tiepolo painted small pictures of mythological themes, which proved extremely popular. The subjects of these works came from the best–known episodes from ancient literature, but his conception of the stories was varied and original.

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The tyrant of Pherae, Alexander, known for his cruelty and crimes against his fellow citizens, could not bear to see the whole Euripides' tragedy "Trojan Women" at the theater of his city (Magnesia) in the middle of the 4th c. B.C. As the ancient Greek historian Plutarch informs us, the tyrant abandoned the theater by telling to the actor to continue the performance because he did not leave out of contempt for him or the play.

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