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Astyanax future quote

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The savior of Troy

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Person to kill Astyanax

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Someone tough

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Menelaus’ view of Hecuba

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Old woman

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Hecuba current position

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Throned in dust

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Cassandra description

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Consecrated virgin

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Andromache reaction to astyanaxs death

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Your enemies will kill you and leave your mother in misery

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Hated green

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A loathe some Greek

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New city

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And build a new city from the ashes

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Menelaus and Hecuba favour

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You’re asking a favor… it’s for your sake, be quite clear, that I allow it, not hers

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Menelaus listens to Hecuba

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I shall do as you say

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Green slave

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A thing that slaves for the Greeks

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Force Cassandra

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Force me, by violence, if you have to

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Talthybius sympathy

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Brought tears to my eyes

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Eponymous

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In the title
Eg the eponymous women of Troy

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Favoring men

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Phallocentric

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Barbarity synonym

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Bellicosity

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Pro women

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Proto feminist

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Against popular opinion

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Subversive/counter cultural

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No violence

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Anti war/ pacifist

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Green glory

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Kleos

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Political condemning message

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Polemic

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Type of Greek play the women of Troy is

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Tragedy

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Greek repetition

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Epizeuxjs

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Emphasise synonyms

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Elucidate
Highlight
Warns
Reveals
Criticizes
Condemns
Sympathizes
Epitomize
Praises
Reflects
Exhibits
Shows
Reveals
Framing
Showcasing
Displaying

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andromache description

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perfect wife

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built the city quote

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I built this city- Poseidon

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troys destruction

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a smoking ruin- poseidon

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women have no value to the Gods

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there is no longer anything left worth a God’s consideration

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hecubas face

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the true face of misery

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tears and dead juxtaposition

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unnumbered tears match the numberless dead

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andromache revealing polyxena’s death

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secretly and brutally murdered

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agamemnon’s intentions with cassandra

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agamemnon intends to make his concubine

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poseidons reaction to cassandra being taken

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flouts all religious feeling

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greeks return home 2 quotes

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I shall make the greeks return home a disaster

I want their voyage home to be a complete disaster

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athena offended

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I have been insulted, my temple desecrated

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euripides opinions on karma

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when a man sacks a town and destroys everything, even sacred temples and the tombs of the dead, hes asking for trouble. The same destruction, sooner or later, will fall on his own head

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keep going hecuba

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lift up your head from the dust, heave up from the earth the weight of your misery

38
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endurance sail extended metaphor thing

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we must endure it, flow with the stream, let the new wind fill our sail

39
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throned in…

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throned in dust

40
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loss of hope

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all hope plundered from my god-cursed ravaged grey head

41
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3 cassandra descriptions

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god-crazed daughter

half-crazed state

poor mad thing

42
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howling quotes

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what howling, can give tongue to pain no animal could endure

howl! howl! howl!

43
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polyxena’s death euphemism

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her fate is settled, all her troubles are over

44
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greeks and what hecuba thinks of their value of the gods

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to whom laws of gods and men mean nothing

45
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cassandra revenge quotes 2

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will find me more destructive as a wife than ever Helen was

because I’ll kill him, and destroy his whole family, in return

46
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troy vs greeks happiness

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this city of Troy is far happier than the whole nation of the Greeks: and ill prove it to you

47
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uncontrollable lust condemnation quote

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for the sake of one women, and one moment of uncontrollable lust, sent a hunting party to hunt down Helen, smoke her out, and it cost them tens of thousands dead!”

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helen true intentions

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ran away and was unfaithful because she wanted to!

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greeks family loss

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had forgotten what their children looked like

their women died in the loneliness of widowhood

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trojans victories

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they won the greatest of all glories

they died fighting for their fatherland

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how to accept defeat with dignity

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any sensible man must hate war, he does his best to avoid it, but if it should come, even if it should end like this, it is no shame for a city, indeed, it is a crown of honour to die nobly, with dignity.

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those in power are corrupt

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it’s surprising how often those that seem the wisest and of the highest regard, do things which show them to be something a good deal less

53
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talthybius and greek soldiers in general description

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lackeys

slaves yourselves, doing great men’s dirty work

54
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gods are bad

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betrayers

the gods hate Troy

vindictive gods

55
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money is meaningless

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wealth, good fortune, its all worth nothing

56
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luck

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the lucky ones are dead hecuba

57
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rape

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a whole generation of women raped in their own bedrooms

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hecuba loss

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I’ve lost my home. I’ve lost my children. Everything.

59
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loot

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we are loot, my son and I

60
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whose happier

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she’s happier dead than I am living

61
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who has hope

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the living at least have hope

62
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dead pain

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the dead feel nothing, and no pain can touch them anymore

63
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reputation can be detrimental

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but my reputation as the ideal wife reached the Greek camp, and that ruined me

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wife betrayal

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I spit in the face of any woman who forgets her dead husband

65
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proclamation of love for hector

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Hector, my love, you had everything I dreamed of in a husband

66
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description of astyanax’s murder

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indecent thing

greatest reluctance

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astyanax how he dies

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they mean to kill him

thrown from the battlements of Troy

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no agency quotes

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there’s nothing you can do

I can’t save my own child from death

69
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bury child with honour

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if you keep quiet… they might allow you to bury your child decently

70
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wedding

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unlucky wedding day… unluckier wedding night

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astyanax’s innocence

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why are you killing this child?

he’s guilty of nothing

were you so frightened of a child you had to invent this unheard savagery?

72
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one to ten thousand

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ten thousand men are dead for one woman, and her hated marriage bed

73
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talthybius soft

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I’m not half hard enough

74
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abuse vs honour helen

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all I get is vulgar abuse instead of the respect and honour I deserve

75
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rape helen

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I was raped, not married

76
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slavery helen

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my life in Troy was the most abject slavery

77
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scream

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how loudly did you scream?

78
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what hecuba thinks of helen

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you’re worthless

death is what she deserves

79
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true meaning of mortality

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anyone born mortal and living in this world, who thinks himself prosperous and secure, is a fool

80
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happiness doesnt last forever

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no happy man ever stays happy or lucky for long

81
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final resolve

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no one would have ever heard of us

old limbs, strengthen yourselves. Your slavery is beginning

march down to the archaean fleet- chorus

82
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trying to sacrifice herself

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what could be better for me, the queen of this burning city, than to die in its embrace and make its funeral pyre my own

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