Euripides Tragedy: The Trojan Women

Euripides was the third most famous greek writer and one of the first to use propaganda.He used propaganda to explain that the Trojan women were not going to fair well during the Peloponnesian wars and he was write. The men war all murdered and the women and children were enslaved. Euripides used propaganda to write a play called the classical greek tragedy and it was basically about what happend to the Trojan women when the Peloponnesians invaded.

The Massacre at Melos

In 415 B.C. the Minoans who wanted to remain neutral in this war were attacked. Later the Minoans surrendered to the Athenians. All the Minoan men during this massacre that were capable of standing for themselves were murdered. The women and children were also enslaved, the Athenians later brought in 500 men to colonize Melos. Since then Melos is now known as Milos.

How the war started

It all started in 431 B.C. between Sparta and Athens when the Spartans wanted to fight a land war, which they were extremely good at. They outnumbered the Athenians two-to-one odds, they believed that the Athenians could only stand up to them for a very short time. At the outbreak of the war the Spartans invaded Attica and burned the Athenians crops to starve the Athenians until they gave up. Athens had a strong navy, Pericles knew that they could put up a fight against the Spartans using the tribute money from the empire.