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The Trojan Women
By Euripides - Stage play
Roles
- Andromache - Adult (36-50), Senior (>50), Female
About this piece
Andromache 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 monologue Andromache, Hector's widow and mother of Polyxena, laments the death of her husband and the fact that she is soon to become the concubine of Achilles' son Neoptolemus.
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