Scenes From Euripides Trojan Women

Scenes from Euripides’ Trojan Women (1961) – F. Kinchin Smith & Barbara J. Hodge (Macmillan & Co.)

A well-thumbed slice of mid-century classroom drama, this slim volume brings Euripides’ tragic masterpiece into the hands of English schoolchildren of the 1960s. Edited with notes and vocabulary by F. Kinchin Smith and Barbara J. Hodge, it offers selected passages from The Trojan Women in Greek, complete with the earnest academic apparatus of its era.

Expect a mix of careful scholarship and no-nonsense layout, designed less for coffee tables and more for chalk-dusted classrooms. The binding may creak, the pages may bear the scars of long-forgotten exams, but within lies Euripides’ searing lament on war, loss, and human suffering—served with the slightly austere flavour only a 1960s school edition can provide.

Perfect for classicists, collectors of old Macmillan texts, or anyone who enjoys their Euripides with a whiff of dust and nostalgia.

This is an ex-school book from Old Palace school in Croydon.

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