The original cast included Samuel Sandford as Priam, Henry Harris as Hector, John Crosby as Paris, Joseph Williams as Troilus, Matthew Medbourne as Agamemnon, Thomas Betterton as Achilles, William Smith as Ulysses, Thomas Gillow as Diomedes, John Bowman as Patroclus, Henry Norris as Menelaus, Cave Underhill as Ajax, Emily Price as Helena, Mary Betterton as Andromache, Elizabeth Barry as Polyxena and Mary Lee as Cassandra.
[1] Ulysses devises a plan to steal the statue of Minerva that has provided Troy security throughout the war.
To do this, the Greeks bribe a Trojan soldier, Antenor, for access to the temple wherein Minerva is located.
Angered because he feels he has gotten no credit for his help in physically stealing the statue, Achilles refuses to continue participating in the war.
Meanwhile, Ulysses and his fellow princes and generals devise a plan to overtake Troy: the Greeks will deliver a giant wooden horse to the Trojans as a supposed wedding gift, but in reality, it is a device used to hide Greek soldiers who will then exit the interior of the horse and destroy Troy.