Polyxena : daughter of Priam & Hecuba. After the fall of Troy, Achilles’ ghost claimed her as his prize & she was sacrificed on his tomb.
... Ilion, to Hellas be yoked; wide Asia, fringe thou Peneus. Lay down golden Helen, a sacrifice lovely and priceless Cast by your weakness and fall on immense Necessity's altar; Yield to my longing Polyxena, Hecuba's deep-bosomed daughter, Her whom my heart desires. She shall leave with you peace and her healing Page 359 Joy of mornings secure and death repulsed from your hearthsides. ... their anger. Discord flaming from Ida, Hundred-voiced glared from the ships through the camp of the victor Achaians,— Love to that discord added her flowerlike lips of Briseis; Faltering lids of Polyxena conquered the strength of Pelides. Vainly the gods who pity open the gates of salvation! Vainly the winds of their mercy breathe on our fevered existence! Man his passions prefers to the voice... Troubled like trees with their birds in a morning of sun and of shadow Where in some garden of kings one walks with his heart in the sunshine, Out from her door where she stood for him waiting Polyxena started, Seized his hand and looked in his face and spoke to her brother. Then not even the brilliant strength of Paris availed him; Joyless he turned his face from her eyes of beauty and sorrow ...
... himself on his own unmatched poetry, figures it as Gadeira and says: "Beyond Gadeira no man can pass into the gloom of the West." Page 360 In the meeting between Paris and Polyxena, when Polyxena says to Paris, who is on his way to fight Achilles and his hosts, that he is going Armed with the strength of Fate to strike at my heart in the batde, she means that she is in ...
... chapter (IV. vi). The warrior-woman, and the heroic hero - the forged antagonism, the fateful attraction! In Ilion, Penthesilea pursues Achilles in love and in hate, but Achilles is in love with Polyxena, daughter of Priam, and for her sake would gladly spare Troy. There are hawks and doves both in Troy and in the Greek camp, and even Olympus is divided on the issue. Like the debate in Hell described... invasions from the 'overhead' planes, there are minglings, matings, meltings, partings. In the foreground is played the shattering last act of the Trojan War. The women - Helen, Hecuba, Cassandra, Polyxena, Creusa, Briseis - are carefully delineated. The Trojan heroes are mythic figures, and of them Aeneas alone stands apart - he is the hope of the future. For the rest, the chieftains and warriors are ...
... marble, Works of the transient gods; — and I yearned forthe end of the war-din Hoping that Death might relent to the beautiful sons of the Trojans." 10 The message also refers to Polyxena, daughter of Priam, whom Achilles loves: "And for Polyxena's sake I will speak to you yet as your lover Once ere the Fury, abrupt from Erebus, deaf to your crying, Mad with the joy of ...
... hands of Paris. Ilion begins with Achilles sending word to the Trojans that they might still purchase peace with honour if they surrendered Helen and agreed to his own marriage with Polyxena, Priam's daughter. An assembly of the Trojan senators is called—"this last of Ilion's sessions"—and Antenor the aged statesman counsels a policy of lying low and secret preparation. Laocon and Paris ...
... Patroclus. He returns to the fight, considerably mellowed in temper but with new ambitions prophetic of Alexander the Great, only after the Trojans reject his offer of peace and his request for Polyxena's hand. He is destined in his last battle to slay the Amazon queen Penthesilea and to die, shot in the heel, at the hands of Paris aided by Apollo. Aegis: attribute of Zeus and, later, Athene; ...
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