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    By Euripides Trojan Women'

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    what occurs after the Trojan War when the city has been destroyed by the Greek Army. The story is from the perspective of the Trojan women Hecuba, her daughter Kasandra, Hector wife Andromache and Helen of Sparta. After the fall of Troy the Greek generals capture these women and they our given as trophies to the generals of the Army. During this time Hecuba queen of Troy is distort when she finds out her daughter Kasandra as priestess to the god Apollo has been selected as a bride to the Greek…

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    responsible leader; goes on quest; risk for death for glory, or the greater good of society; perform good deeds; face enormous obstacles; and life ends tragically for the hero. Hector the great warrior of Troy and prince, born to King Priam and Queen Hecuba, outshines the most of being such a hero.…

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    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…

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    death of Priam, king of Troy, is recorded. According to Virgil, as Troy is being overrun, the men are all fighting and women are crying out to the gods. Priam's wife, Hecuba, is among those huddled under the alter of Zeus, seeking safety and protection. Priam rushes to get into his armor, keen to join his men in the battle. Hecuba sees him and…

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    Paris, also known as Alexandros, was born to Hecuba and Priam. His mother had a dream regarding his birth, that he was a flaming torch. Paris’s sister, Cassandra, told her parents that she had a dream of Paris ruining the city and bringing destruction to Troy. As a result, Hecuba wanted to kill him, so she sent him into the wilderness to die. However, he was found in the wilderness by a shepherd, who raised him As Paris grew older, he married Oenone. One of his dad’s servants took one of…

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    highly respected soothsayers -who supposedly saw the future- and took their advice very seriously. “...while Hecuba still carried the babe within her, the soothsayers had foretold that she would give birth to a firebrand that should burn down Troy. And so, when he was born and named, the king bade a servant carry him out into the wilderness and leave him to die” (page 3, paragraph 2). When Hecuba is pregnant a soothsayer told her that her child would burn down Troy. Soothsayers were believed to…

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    passion, could force his soul so to his own conceit that from her working all his visage wann’d tears in his eyes, distraction in ‘s aspect, a broken voice, and his whole function suiting with forms to his conceit? And all for nothing! For Hecuba! What’s Hecuba…

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    Seneca On Anger Analysis

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    Anger has the capability to serve a positive function, but only when it is kept under control through the use of reasoning. For the purposes of this argument, anger is defined as a strong emotion caused by an injustice or a wronging, which motivates the wronged person to react in either a constructive or destructive way, depending on their level of self control and reasoning. With regards to anger serving a “constructive” function, this may mean in some way beneficial to the self or to society,…

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    Apollo was the god of light, prophecy, colonization, medicine, archery (but not for war or hunting), poetry, dance, intellectual inquiry and the carer of herds and flocks. He was also a god of light, know as “Phoebus” (radiant or beaming, and he was sometimes identified with Helios the sun god). He was also the god of plague and was worshiped as Smintheus (from sminthos, rat) and as Parnopius. Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Apollo`s first achievement was…

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    Shakespeare uses many play on words to get his point across rather than coming straight out and saying it. For example when Hamlet says “ [for] Hecuba… [what’s] Hecuba to him?”, he uses word choice to get across a more precise meaning (Shakespeare, Act II, Scene ii, Line 513-514). Shakespeare uses the allusion of Hecuba and “her grief [that] most conspicuously indicts Gertrude... for her failure to mourn” King Hamlet’s death (Pollard 1063). Shakespeare could have come straight out…

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