The Trojan Women and Hippolytus

Why it’s on the list: Two Euripides tragedies in one volume: the women of Troy awaiting slavery after the city falls, and Phaedra’s ruinous passion for her stepson Hippolytus.

Where I heard about it

• @athenaeumbc — one of ~35 old books in a stack photographed by Athenaeum Book Club (October 2026) under the line “One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.” The full stack is listed on One of the hidden benefits… (tweet).

Connections

• Euripides — author.
• Antigone and The Three Theban Plays — the Sophocles plays in the same stack.
• One of the hidden benefits… (tweet) — the stack it came from.