"I chose these three tragedies of the magical Euripides because they have a common "motif", a very important "finding" for the composition of the myth: the crushed youthful body. In "Medea", it is the slaughtered children; in "Hippolytus", it is the young hero himself crushed by his chariot; in "The Trojan Women" it is the little Astyanax thrown from the walls. In "Medea", we hear only the children's cries for help coming from within; in "Hippolytus", the lament of the crushed young man himself as his final psychological struggle; in "The Trojan Women", the voice of the victim has been definitively silenced. Hecuba takes it upon herself to mourn -on his and our behalf- the sacrifice of youth every time the impasses of human relations or the laws of History require victims".
