Euripides, The Trojan Women; Complaining about the outcome of the War

It's a quiet Sunday and I've done most of my chores. I mean, what else is the weekend for but catching up on chores or, at the absolute least, buying food :D... Anyway, it's nice and quiet as I write this, for a change. I bought some discount marshmallows too and now there is cornflour all over my keyboard and mouse.

The Story
The Trojan Women starts with a conversation between Poseidon and Athena, in which they plot the Greek forces downfall at sea. Poseidon does this, as he was patron of the Trojans that have been defeated, and Athena does it as she was slighted at he temple in the city of Troy by the conquerors when they took the city.
Priam's wife, Hecabe, enters and start bemoaning that Troy has fallen and that she will now be a slave. A messenger enters and tells the gathered women who their new masters will be, none are too happy about this.
Hectors wife, Hecabe's daughter-in-law enters, clinging to her young son. She is slightly happy that, at least, her son will survive. Then, the news comes that the boy is to be killed by being thrown off the walls of Troy. His mother wails and hopes she can give him a burial. The Greeks allow the boy to be buried on his father, Hector's, shield.
The play ends with the woman being sent to their given masters to start their voyage. And with Hector's wife swearing revenge against her master.
I know I've written a lot less about this play but it seems to me that there is not really so much going on.

Reflections
To be honest, I'm finding it hard to find things to comment on in such a strait forward play.
Hecabe's lament at the fall of, not just the city of Troy, but also of it's high houses, with Priam and both of his sons dead, shows how the Ancient Greeks and Trojans saw a man's legacy as only succeeding through his bloodline. This seems a little odd to the modern reader who is used to the idea that a man's legacy is through his work and that the remembering of that work is now equated with remembrance of the man himself. Following that, the death of the child seems so unnecessary to the modern reader, but to the Greek or Trojan it was the only way to keep the name from rising again and keeping the son from seeking revenge at a later date.

Comparisons
This is the first play where we see the Trojan horse actually mentioned as the trick that got the Greeks into Troy. By comparison, the Iliad finishes well before the end of the war and so we do not see it and in Agamemnon, although the war is finished, we do not hear how the war was won.
Also, we see the death of the young son of the fighting men of note, in this case Hector. By comparison Orestes escapes alive and comes back when he comes of age for his revenge.

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