Andromache (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Euripides
- First Published: 426
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: About a decade after the Trojan War
- Setting: The temple of Thetis in Thessaly
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Suicide, Murder or homicide, Gods or goddesses, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Trojan War
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Thessaly
Characters Discussed
Andromache (an-DRO-muh-kee), the widow of Hector, allotted at the fall of Troy as a slave to Neoptolemus, son of Achilles. The prologue, spoken by Andromache, gives the necessary background. Andromache has borne a son, Molossus, to Neoptolemus; he then married a Spartan princess, Hermione, who blames her own sterility on the machinations of Andromache. For this reason, Hermione wishes to kill both Andromache and her son and has called her father, King Menelaus, from Sparta to help her. Andromache has hidden her son and taken refuge at the altar of Thetis,...
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