Persons of the Play

Persons of the Play
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
HELEN, 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 (mute)
CHORUS of captive Trojan women
MESSENGER

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.