Trojan captive women
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Trojan women · Trojan maids · captive women · choice objects from the land of Troy · the women of Troy · these women
in the texts
Electra
Trojan captive women who accompany Clytemnestra as attendants and spoils of the Trojan War.
The homes of the gods are adorned with Phrygian spoils, but I have obtained these women, choice objects from the land of Troy, in return for the daughter whom I lost, a slight reward but an ornament to my house.
Come out of the wagon, Trojan maids, and take my hand, that I may step down from the chariot.
Hecuba
The wider band of enslaved Trojan women whom Hecuba recruits to help ambush, blind, and kill Polymestor's sons inside the tent.
for there were many of the Trojan maidens seated there, some on my right hand, some on my left, as if beside a friend;
And those that were young mothers were dandling my children in their arms, with loud admiration, as they passed them on from hand to hand to remove them far from their father;
for neither land or sea produces such a race, as whoever has had to do with them knows.
Helen
The women of Troy, whose suffering under the Achaean conquest is lamented in the Chorus's opening ode.
Let me call on you, beneath leafy haunts, sitting in your place of song, you, the most sweetly singing bird, tearful nightingale, oh, come, trilling through your tawny throat, to aid me in my lament, as I sing the piteous woes of Helen and the tearful fate of Trojan women under the Achaeans’ spears;