From: Andrew Lorimer <andrew@lorimer.id.au>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 03:41:46 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: add notes on Troy (after finishing reading play)
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add notes on Troy (after finishing reading play)
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+# 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