 In Ovid's "Metamorphoses", the child is thrown from the walls by the Greek victors (13, 413ff).In Euripides's "The Trojan Women" (719 ff), the herald Talthybius reveals to Andromache that Odysseus has convinced the council to have the child thrown from the walls, and the child is in this way killed.In Seneca's version of "The Trojan Women", the prophet Calchas declares that Astyanax must be thrown from the walls if the Greek fleet is to be allowed favorable winds (365–70), but once led to the tower, the child himself leaps off the walls (1100–3).