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Where I worked the shuttle back and forth. 200 For the last time Shall I look on my dead children. For the last time. But there is worse to come, Serving some Greek bed: I curse that night, that fate. Or shall I draw water serving The sacred spring Pirene? I’d like to go to Theseus’ fair and famed land, But not to the swirling Eurotas, That nurtured hated Helen, To be a slave to Menelaus The destroyer of Troy. My second choice after The god-haunted holy land of Theseus, Would be glorious Peneus, Just before you reach Olympus. I’ve heard of its rich harvests, Flowers, and sweet fruits. Perhaps the land of Hephaestus, That faces Phoenicia, And Etna, the mother of Sicily’s mountains, Whose strong people win victory crowns. Or the land near the Ionian sea, Into which flows the stream Krathis, That makes hair golden, like a flame, Who nourishes and enriches That land of brave men. Look! A herald from the Greek army is hurrying this way with the latest news. What word does he bring? What will he say to us who are slaves of Greeks? [Enter Talthybius] Talthybius Hecuba, You know me, Talthybius I’ve often come to you from the Greek camp, bringing messages to Troy. I have a new message for you now. 30
Hecuba Here it is women. The moment we dreaded. Talthybius Yes. You have been assigned masters by lot, if that is what you dreaded. [Keening] Hecuba Aiai. Is it a city of Thessaly, or Phthia? Tell me. Or Thebes, Cadmus’ land? Each woman has a different master. Talthybius Hecuba Who gets whom? What woman of Troy will ever find happiness? Talthybius Ask about them one by one, not altogether. Hecuba Tell me. Who got my daughter, my poor Cassandra? Talthybius She was Lord Agamemnon’s special choice. Hecuba A slave to his Spartan wife Clytemnestra? Io moi moi. 250 No, as a bride of his secret lust. Talthybius 31
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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 19 and 20: CASSANDRA (ca-SAN-drah), daughter o
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: Half-chorus B Has some Greek messen
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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