The play opens with a prologue spoken by Poseidon, who is then approached by Athena with a plan for bringing good fortune to her former enemies.  
The play opens with a prologue spoken by Poseidon, who is then approached by Athena with a plan for bringing good fortune to her former enemies.  The playwright wrote it in response to an event depicted in the fifth book of Thucydides's History, the annihilation of the natives of Melos.  In it, Polyxena is sacrificed to the ghost of Achilles while Astyanax is thrown from the walls to end the royal line.  Troy is burning and Hecuba, Andromache, and Cassandra are to be slaves, while Helen appears to ask for her life in order to represent the futility of the war fought for her.  FTP, name this 415 BC play by Euripides, whose title refers to the aforementioned females.
The play opens with a prologue spoken by Poseidon, who is then approached by Athena with a plan for bringing good fortune to her former enemies.  
The Trojan Women