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Hecuba addresses the corpse of her grandson

Astyanax following the fall of Troy

 

Steven Shankman

 

 

You poor, unlucky thing, how pitiably

Your father’s walls, the towers Apollo built,

Have ravaged your face, have shorn the curl of hair

The one who bore you tended like a shoot

Time and again and covered with her kisses,

Where now your blood laughs out from broken bones:

Shameful brutality I will not hide!

 

(Euripides, Trojan Women, ll.1173-1177)

 

 

 

 

 

Shankman, Steven. “Hecuba addresses the corpse of her grandson Astyanax following the fall of Troy.The New Compass: A Critical Review 1 (June 2003) <http://www.thenewcompass.ca/jun2003/shankman.html>