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