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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
“Had He not turned us in His hand, and thrust Our high things low and shook our hills as dust, We had not been this splendour, and our wrong An everlasting music for the song Of earth and heaven!”
The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, burial of Astyanax, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905)
Over her grandson's body Hecuba sees that Troy's suffering will become the matter of poetry for all time.
Citation: "Had He not turned us in His hand, and thrust Our high things low and shook our hills as dust, We had not been this splendour, and our wrong An everlasting music for the song Of earth and heaven!" — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, burial of Astyanax, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q4)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
