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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
“How are ye blind, Ye treaders down of cities, ye that cast Temples to desolation, and lay waste Tombs, the untrodden sanctuaries where lie The ancient dead; yourselves so soon to die!”
The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, prologue, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905)
After agreeing to wreck the Greek fleet, Poseidon leaves the stage with a warning to all conquerors who profane holy places.
Citation: "How are ye blind, Ye treaders down of cities, ye that cast Temples to desolation, and lay waste Tombs, the untrodden sanctuaries where lie The ancient dead; yourselves so soon to die!" — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, prologue, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q1)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
