Andromache (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Euripides
- First Published: 426
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Shortly after the Trojan War
- 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
Places Discussed
Temple of Thetis. Temple in Thessaly, the central region of ancient Greece, near Phthia, the home of Neoptolemus, the goddess Thetis’s grandson and son of Achilles, and Pharsala, the home of Peleus, Thetis’s mortal husband. The ancient Greeks considered temples, and particularly temple altars, sanctuaries—places of asylum for both good and evil people. In Euripides’ play, the Trojan hero Hector’s widow, Andromache, is seeking refuge at the Temple of Thetis from the threat of Neoptolemus’s Spartan wife, Hermione, and her father, Menelaus. She trusts...
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