I chose these three tragedies of the magical Euripides, while dreaming of the others, because they share a common "theme," a crucial "discovery" for the composition of the myth: The shattered youthful body.

In Medea, there are the slaughtered children. In Hippolytus, the young hero himself, shattered by his chariot. In The Trojans, the little Astyanax cast from the walls.

In Medea, we only hear the pleas of the children for help from within. In Hippolytus, the lament of the very crushed young man as his final struggle for breath. In The Trojans, the voice of the victim has permanently fallen silent.

Cassiopeia takes on the responsibility to mourn on behalf of him and for our sake the sacrifice of youth every time the dead ends of human relationships or the laws of History require victims.