TROADES
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
| Agamemnon | King of the Greek forces in the war against Troy. |
| Pyrrhus | Son of Achilles, one of the active leaders in the final events of the war. |
| Ulysses | King of Ithaca, one of the most powerful and crafty of the Greek chiefs before Troy. |
| Calchas | A priest and prophet among the Greeks. |
| Talthybius | A Greek messenger. |
| An Old Man | Faithful to Andromache. |
| Astyanax | Little son of Hector and Andromache. |
| Hecuba | Widow of Priam, one of the Trojan captives. |
| Andromache | Widow of Hector, a Trojan captive. |
| Helena | Wife of Menelaüs, king of Sparta, and afterward of Paris, a prince of Troy; the exciting cause of the Trojan war. |
| Polyxena | Daughter of Hecuba and Priam (persona muta). |
| Chorus | Of captive Trojan women. |
| The scene is laid on the seashore, with the smouldering ruins of Troy in the background. The time is the day before the embarkation of the Greeks on their homeward journey. | |
