Editing Polyxena (section)

==On the stage==
The story of Polyxena features in ''[[Hecuba (play)|Hecuba]]'' by [[Euripides]], ''[[Troades (Seneca)|Troades]]'' by [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]] and the ''Polyxena'' of [[Sophocles]], of which only a few fragments remain.<ref>EB</ref>
Apart from these classical dramas, there are:
*''[[Achille et Polyxène]]'', an opera begun by [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]], who died from a conducting injury having only completed the first act. It was completed by his pupil [[Pascal Collasse]], and premiered in Paris in 1687.
*''[[Polixène]]'', an opera by the French composer [[Antoine Dauvergne]], first performed at the [[Paris Opera|Paris Opéra]] on 11 January 1763
*Polyxena is also a character in ''[[Les Troyens]]'' by [[Hector Berlioz]].
*She is mentioned by [[William Shakespeare]] in ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' III,3,207-215 and V,1.40-43.