CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Polymestor, Talthybius, Euripides
15 Dec 2016
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Hecuba begs him to go on a different ship than her lies to hecuba so she remains satisfied. Made his decision to forgive helen based on one action: her bearing her breasts to him typical for menelaus is usually depicted as cowardly in mythology [exception = homer with his heroic epics] Significant event that ties the plays together: polyxena [she dies in both the trojan women and in. Play about hecuba & how she feels after being enslaved one last thing to cling to in terms of hope: her son polydorus. > characters: ghost of polydorus, hecuba, chorus, polyxena, odysseus, talthybius, agamemnon, Polymestor (king of thrace) & sons of polymestor (silent) Sent w/a lot of gold would return to a victorious troy w/it or would rebuilt troy w/the gold if it fell. Beg. of the play: appearance of his ghost killed by the king & thrown into the sea.
