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   1# Women of Troy
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   3**Euripides (Athens, c. 450 BC)**
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   5## Characters
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   7**Poseidon** - god of the sea  
   8**Athene** - goddess of wisdom  
   9**Hecuba** - widow of Priam, King of Troy. Old & "grey-haired".  
  10**Cassandra** - their daughter, a prophetess. Manic.  
  11**Andromache** - their daughter-in-law, widow of Hector  
  12**Talthybius** - Greek officer - assigns women  
  13**Menelaus** - King of Sparta  
  14**Helen** - his wife, Trojan, imprisoned 
  15**Chorus** of Trojan women, captured  
  16**Astryanax** - small boy, Hector and Andromache's son  
  17**Greek soldiers**
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  19- *trojan* - native of Troy
  20- Epeios (Greek) built Trojan horse to defeat King Priam of Troy (city)
  21- Women are captured and enslaved/raped, men are killed
  22- "All the women of Troy who've not yet been allocated are in this building here"
  23- Poseidon & Athene destroy Greece with help from Zeus
  24- Invasion depiction - p.26