ANDROMACHE, dressed as a suppliant, is clinging to the altar in front of the temple. The palace of Achilles is nearby. ANDROMACHE. O city of Thebes, glory of Asia, whence on a day I came to Priam's princely home with many a rich and costly thing in my dower, affianced unto Hector to be the mother of his children, I Andromache, envied name in ...

07/06/2019 · “Andromache” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, first produced some time between about 428 and 424 BCE. It dramatizes the plight of Andromache , wife of the dead Trojan hero Hector , during her life in the years after the end of the Trojan War as the slave and concubine of Achilles ‘ son, Neoptolemus .

Andromache. Glory of Asia, city of Thebe! It was from you that I, Andromache, once came dowered with golden luxury to the royal house of Priam, given to Hector as lawful wife for the bearing of his children. [5] In days gone by I was a woman to be envied, but now I am, if any woman ever was, the paragon of misery.

Euripides’ “Andromache” - or, according to Callimachus, “Democrates” - ca 427 BCE. Place of first performance or prize awarded unknown. Translated by G. Theodoridis.

5 ζηλωτὸς ἔν γε τῷ πρὶν Ἀνδρομάχη χρόνῳ, νῦν δ᾽, εἴ τις ἄλλη, δυστυχεστάτη γυνή: [ἐμοῦ πέφυκεν ἢ γενήσεταί ποτε]: ἥτις πόσιν μὲν Ἕκτορ᾽ ἐξ Ἀχιλλέως. θανόντ᾽ ἐσεῖδον, παῖδά θ᾽ ὃν τίκτω πόσει. 10 ῥιφθέντα πύργων Ἀστυάνακτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀρθίων, ἐπεὶ τὸ Τροίας εἷλον ...

in Euripides’ Andromache Loukas Papadimitropoulos URIPIDES’ Andromache is one of the least appreciated Greek tragedies. The play has baffled scholars whose tendency has been to search for dramatic unity by using Aristotelian criteria. Its lack of a central character who dom-inates the play by his or her constant presence and its division

Euripides Andromache. entstanden 429 oder zwischen 428 und 424; nicht in Athen, sondern wahrscheinlich in Argos aufgeführt. Inhalt . Hektors Frau Andromache war nach der Zerstörung Trojas Neoptolemos als Sklavin zugesprochen, dem Sohn des (ebenfalls gefallenen) Achilleus.