The drama by Euripides is taking place in scenery of devastation, under the deserted walls of Troy and gives an image of the shattered civilian women. Central character, Hecuba, surrounded by the daughters, who were left to her, Cassandra, Andromache and the Trojan slaves, composing the Chorus. The poet denounces the barbarities, massacres, and raping of the Trojan people by the Greek invaders, taking place for the infidelity of a woman, Helen, and for the satisfaction of the betrayed husband Menelaus.