Trojan Women

The evidence for this performance is late and anecdotal. The anecdotal tradition, preserved in Plutarch and Aelian, records an incident in the theatre of Pherae where Alexander (tyrant of Pherae) was so distressed by the performance of the tragic actor that he left the theatre (in shame for not being able to pity his own citizens). It is uncertain which part from which play was performed Aelian suggests Aerope (from Carcinus' Aerope?) but Plutarch suggests that it was either the part of Andromache or Hecuba from Euripides' Trojan Women'. The date range given for performance corresponds to the rule of Alexander, tyrant of Pherae. Plutarch relates a slightly different version of the to the incident in his On the fame of Alexander (II), 1.