Andromache – Mythopedia
2023年2月9日 · Andromache, daughter of King Eetion of Cilician Thebes, was the wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax. A devoted wife and mother, she lost her husband and son in the …
Astyanax – Mythopedia
2023年5月24日 · A: Astyanax’s father was Hector, the eldest son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and thus the heir to the throne. He was a great warrior who led the Trojan …
Iliad: Book 6 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache. The gods having left the field, the Grecians prevail. Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the …
Hector – Mythopedia
2023年7月13日 · Hector married Andromache, a princess from the neighboring kingdom of Thebes (not to be confused with the more famous Thebes in Greece). Together they had a …
Hermione – Mythopedia
2023年9月19日 · The myth of Hermione is known from several literary accounts. The most notable of these is Euripides’ Andromache, whose portrayal of Hermione as a cruel and …
Alcestis (Play) – Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · The Alcestis is the earliest of Euripides’ surviving plays, staged in 438 BCE. It tells the story of Alcestis, a brave queen of Thessaly who volunteered to die in order to save …
Hecuba (Play) - Mythopedia
2023年3月3日 · Arrowsmith, William, trans. Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra. 3rd ed. Edited by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most. Chicago: University of …
Aeneid: Book 3 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Here wondrous things were loudly blaz’d fame: How Helenus reviv’d the Trojan name, And reign’d in Greece; that Priam’s captive son Succeeded Pyrrhus in his bed and throne; And fair …
Helen of Troy – Mythopedia
2022年12月8日 · Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships,” was a daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famous for her extraordinary beauty. When Helen left her Greek …
Alcestis (daughter of Pelias) - Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Greek. Homer: The earliest reference to Alcestis occurs in Book 2 of the Iliad (eighth century BCE).. Euripides: The most complete ancient account of the myth of Alcestis is …