Trojan captive women · Atlas

in the texts

ElectraClassical · Greek

Trojan captive women who accompany Clytemnestra as attendants and spoils of the Trojan War.

Come out of the wagon, Trojan maids, and take my hand, that I may step down from the chariot.

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.

electra ¶

HecubaClassical · Greek

The wider band of enslaved Trojan women whom Hecuba recruits to help ambush, blind, and kill Polymestor's sons inside the tent.

for the numbers of the women.

hecuba ¶

With their help I will punish my murderous foe.

hecuba ¶

Sheltered beneath these tents is a crowd of Trojan women.

hecuba ¶

HelenClassical · Greek

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;

helen ¶

IliadClassical · Greek

Group of Trojan women gathered around Helen on the tower.

Then she went to call Helen, and found her on a high tower with the Trojan women crowding round her.

chapter 3 ¶