What Are The 3 Gossips In The Iliad

Andromache can already tell that her husband Hector had died to Achilles on the battlefield. She runs down to the wall to see what was going on, only to find that Achilles had dragged Hector's body around the city walls, mangling his corpse. Andromache continues to cry, and tells Helen that she will never cry again. Xanthe is watching the baby and putting him to sleep when Helen brings Andromache home. Andromache falls asleep exhausted and Helen stays there to comfort her when she wakes up. Meanwhile, Alastor and Marpessa have an affair while everybody is still grieving at the palace. Marpessa makes Alastor promise to not tell her sister Xanthe who is in love with Alastor. The three gossips that work in the kitchen have been summoned by the queen, Hecuba. What they have been summoned to do is what they will learn when the king and queen arrive. When King Priam arrives, he tells the three to start loading up valuables into chests so that they can bargain with Achilles. The king is going out that …show more content…
Along with this and the fact that he is betrothed to a woman over the mountain, Xanthe wants to find and talk to him. She leaves the Blood Room and goes to the wall because that is where he will most likely be. Xanthe finds him rather quickly and asks him about the rumor. It is true, though he can not tell her who the woman he loves is, he tells her how amazing she makes him feel. Xanthe can't handle him saying all of it and decides to leave rather urgently. She makes her way back to the Blood Room to busy herself. After Helen leaves her bedchamber, a young man comes running into the room looking for Lord Paris. He claims that he is Paris’s son, the one he had with the nymph Oenone. Marpessa comes in wondering what all the noise is about and Helen asks her to lead him to the front gate. All of a sudden, Paris comes swiftly into the room, knife in hand, and kills his own son right then and