The play "Hope after Despair... Scenes from the Trojan Wars", by its author, Naguib Al-Haddad, presents a bloody psychological struggle that the Spartan king Agamemnon engages in, when the gods put him before two choices, both of which are miserable for the soul: to sacrifice his beloved daughter, Princess Iphigenia, so that his country can be saved by offering the princess as a sacrifice. To the gods, or to lose his land, his king, and his people. What is the wise choice that the king will make?