1# Women of Troy 2 3**Euripides (Athens, c. 450 BC)** 4 5## Characters 6 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** 18 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