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The Trojan Women
By Euripides - Stage play
Roles
- Hecuba - Adult (36-50), Senior (>50), Female
About this piece
Hecuba laments her fate
Summary
The play follows the fates of several Trojan women after Troy is conquered by the Greeks. Some of the Trojan women are Hecuba, the Trojan queen wife of King Priam and Hector's and Cassandra's mother, Polyxena, Andromache's daughter who will be sacrificed at the tomb of the Greek warrior Achilles, and Cassandra, who will become Agamemnon's concubine. In this scene Hecuba has just learned from Talthybius, a Greek herald, that she will become Odysseus' slave and that Cassandra will become Agamemnon's concubine. In this monologue she laments her fate and the fate of the Trojan women.
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