Bacchae and The Trojan Women
The Bacchae and The Trojan Women Both of these plays are good examples of what life in ancient Greece was like. ... However, Euripides is not immoral with either, The Bacchae or The Trojan Women. ... He was exposed to the sexist view of women; they were less important socially than men in many mythological plays of that time. Euripides uses the women’s tragedies as examples of the immorality found in ancient Greece’s social structure. In both his stories, Euripides uses women as victims of immoral actions; while at the same time he illustrates the more humane action that could have been taken. ... The Bacchae is written a lot like a classic “good” versus “bad” story.