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HELEN (HELL-en) married to Menelaus. Her abduction by Paris was reputed to be the cause of the Trojan War. HEPHAESTUS (heph-EYE-stus), god of fire and carpenter god. HERA (HERE-rah), wife of Zeus and goddess of marriage. HYMEN (HIGH-man), god of marriage. LAOMEDON (lay-OMM-edon), early king of Troy, father of Priam, who cheated Poseidon and Apollo of their payment in building Troy, and then again cheated Heracles, who slew the sea-monster the gods sent to punish him. Father of Ganymede. MENELAUS (me-neh-LAY-us), king of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon and married to Helen. ODYSSEUS (oh-DISS-yoos), king of Ithaca, one of the leaders who went to Troy. OLYMPUS (oh-LIMP-us), mountain where the gods were reputed to live. Highest mountain in Greece (northeast). PELEUS (PEE-lyoos), father of Achilles. PHOCIS (PHO-kis), country of central Greece, near Mt. Parnassus. PIRENE (PIE-rene), sacred spring at Corinth. Pegasus, the flying horse, drank from it. POSEIDON (Pos-EYE-don), god of the ocean, builder of Troy, who fought on the side of Troy. PHRYGIA (FRIDGE-ee-ah) where Troy was located, Asia Minor. 20
SCAMANDER (sca-MAND-er), river in Troy. TALTHYBIUS (tal-THIB-ee-us), messenger of the Greeks. TELAMON (TELL-ah-moan), father of the warrior Ajax who fought at Troy, Telamon had sacked Troy along with Heracles after Laomedon refused Heracles payment for killing a sea-monster. THESSALY (THESS- a-lee), region of northern Greece, next to Olympus. Phthia, the birthplace of Achilles, is located in Thessaly. TYNDAREUS (tyn-DAR-yoos), co-father, along with Zeus, of Helen and Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux/Polydeuces. ZEUS (ZYOOS), king of the gods. 21
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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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