Inspired by the eponymous tragedy of Euripides, as well as by Virgil's Aeneid, Racine's Andromache is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of French classicism and world theater.

After the fall of Troy, a new war threatens the Greeks. This time, the apple of discord is a child. Overwhelming passions intertwine with desperate political intrigues, determining whether young Astyanax will live or be executed.

After all, directly or indirectly, then or now, war, the timeless disgrace of humanity, always has the child as its primary victim. Through the exquisite music of his language, the young Racine emerges as a supreme poet and dramatist, a deep connoisseur of the human soul and a leading celebrant of love. He is 26 years old when he writes Andromache, already proving that poetry is not a quest for eccentricity but a search for simplicity: in Andromache, he uses fewer than 1,300 words to write his tragedy.

Marginalized in the 20th century in Greece, and after 80 years of complete absence from Greek stages, Racine's Andromache was presented by the National Theater in 2007 at the Epidaurus Festival in a poetic translation and direction by Dimitris Mavrikios. The book includes the complete translation of the work, as well as the adaptation that the translator and director devised in order to present it in an open space at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus.