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K The Iliad of Homer, translated by Richmond bltadwin. The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Richmond bltadwin. Click Get Books and find your favorite books in the online library. Tip Designer. Share this thing. Send to Thingiverse user. Remixed from: Select a Collection. Print Settings. Dec 27, Hector expresses a similar wish —8 : But it is not so much the pain to come of the Trojans that troubles me, not even of Priam the king and Hecabe, not the thought of my brothers who in their numbers and valour shall drop in the dust under the hands of men who hate them, as troubles me the thought of you, when some bronze-armored Achaian leads you off, taking away your day of liberty, in tears; and in Argos you must work the loom of another, and carry water from the spring Messeis or Hypereia, all unwilling, but strong necessity will be upon you.

Andromache and Astyanax are appendages to Hector. We, the audience, know that enslavement is exactly what is going to happen, not only to Andromache, but to all the Trojan women. Hecuba too has tried to detain Hector from the battlefield without success 6. Once Achilles kills Hector, she is the first to cry out Loraux What shall my life be in my sorrows, now you are dead… Like Andromache, Hecuba is a helpless victim of the war who incurs double pain from being both the mother of Hector who is now dead and from the knowledge that because of this she is destined for slavery.

It is entirely fitting therefore, that Andromache and Hecuba lament Hector at his subsequent prothesis. They mourn the destruction of their relationships with him, the ruin of the city of Troy, as well as their own certain fates as slaves. But what about Helen? A stolen wife argued over by Menelaus and Paris and hence the direct cause of the Trojan War, Helen is the only woman not destined to become enslaved Od.

What is she crying for? As the catalyst of the war and pawn of Aphrodite, Helen is just as much a victim as the other women. We know she regrets her position 6. In this time I have never heard a harsh saying from you, nor an insult. Therefore I mourn for you in sorrow of heart and mourn myself also and my ill luck. Their value lies chiefly in the poetry itself, moving from sublime passages about the gods and heroic exploits to passages expressing deep human emotion.

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