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The Trojan Women

By Euripides - Stage play

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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.

Tone

DescriptiveLamentingReminiscing life story/Telling a story

Use cases

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