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415 Women of Troy 408 Euripides left Athens for the court of Archelaus of Macedon. 406 Death in Macedon. 405 Iphigenia at Aulis and Bacchae performed posthumously. Euripides featured as a character (now dead and in Hades) in Aristophanes' Frogs. Glossary and Identification ACHILLES (ah-KILL-eese), greatest warrior of Greece, killer of Hector. AGAMEMNON (AG-ah-MEM-non), king of Mycenae/Argos, married to Clytemnestra. ANDROMACHE (and-DROM-a-key), married to Hector, mother of Astyanax. APHRODITE (APH-row-DITE-ee), goddess of love. APOLLO (ah-POL-oh), also Phoebus, god of the sun, brother to Artemis, son of Leto. ARTEMIS (ART-em-iss), virgin goddess of the hunt. ASTYANAX (ass-STY-a-nacks), son of Hector and Andromache, grandson of Hecuba. ATHENE (ah-THEE-nee), virgin goddess of wisdom, patron of Athens, who fought on the side of the Greeks. Odysseus is her special favorite. 18
CASSANDRA (ca-SAN-drah), daughter of Hecuba, prophetess who always told the truth and foresaw the future but was never believed, a punishment from Apollo whom she rejected. CASTOR (CAST-or), brother of Pollux/Polydeuces, Clytemnestra and Helen. EPEIUS (EP-ee-us), builder of the Trojan Horse, the stratagem for taking Troy: a gigantic horse filled with armed Greek soldiers which the Trojans dragged into their city thinking it was a sacred offering. CIRCE (SIR-see), the first witch, related to Medea and Hecate, turned Odysseus’ men into pigs. CRONUS (CRONE-us), son of Uranus, father of Zeus. DARDANUS (DAR-dan-us), son of Zeus and Electra, early King of Troy, some say the first. GANYMEDE (GAN-ee-meed), son of Laomedon, beloved of Zeus, who seized him in the form of an eagle and brought him to Olympus to serve as his cupbearer. HECATE (HECK-a-tee), the crone of the crossroads, noted for magical powers, related to Circe. HECTOR (HECK-tor), greatest warrior of Troy, son of Priam and Hecuba, married to Andromache and father of Astyanax. HECUBA (HECK-cube-bah), queen of Troy, married to Priam, mother of Hector, Polyxena, and Cassandra. Mother-in-law of Andromache. 19
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Page 3 and 4: Tragedy and Comedy in Athens were p
Page 5 and 6: The goddess Athene, his niece, trie
Page 7 and 8: This play was performed in 415 BC,
Page 9 and 10: This play shows us a new type of he
Page 11 and 12: Original Staging The original Athen
Page 13 and 14: Syracuse after the ill-fated Sicili
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Page 17: Webster, T. B. L., The Tragedies of
Page 21 and 22: SCAMANDER (sca-MAND-er), river in T
Page 23 and 24: [Troy in ruins is smoking in the ba
Page 25 and 26: Athena Did you know that the Greeks
Page 27 and 28: The prows of the ships With swift b
Page 29 and 30: Half-chorus B Has some Greek messen
Page 31 and 32: Hecuba Here it is women. The moment
Page 33 and 34: What are you saying? She’s alive,
Page 35 and 36: Where I served you as my lord. 330
Page 37 and 38: [Aside] These men in their high sta
Page 39 and 40: I was royal and I married royalty,
Page 41 and 42: Hecuba, See here’s Andromache, Br
Page 43 and 44: Hecuba All in smoke. Andromache Oh
Page 45 and 46: Andromache We are dragged off as bo
Page 47 and 48: to Greece, a prisoner of the spear,
Page 49 and 50: Andromache May his sons also suffer
Page 51 and 52: Your life is ripped away from us, f
Page 53 and 54: She is one of the defeated slaves,
Page 55 and 56: he came, that nemesis, whether you
Page 57 and 58: Menelaus [To Hecuba] I agree with y
Page 59 and 60: And shout as they weep. A little gi
Page 61 and 62: uilt high by Loxias, have shorn fro
Page 63 and 64: Hecuba [Keening] Oimoi moi. Chorus
Page 65 and 66: Talthybius [To his soldiers] Seize
Page 67 and 68: A holy man in unholy slaughter. Hec

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