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  • Olympias, was originally named 'Polyxena', as Plutarch mentions in his work

    American Chronicle 2010

  • Thy daughter Polyxena is dead, slain at Achilles 'tomb, an offering to his lifeless corpse.

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Agamemnon, the burial of Polyxena lately slain, that brother and sister may be laid on the same pyre and buried side by side, a double cause of sorrow to their mother.

    Hecuba 2008

  • Meantime all the Achaeans sit idly here in their ships at the shores of Thrace; for the son of Peleus, even Achilles, appeared above his tomb and stayed the whole host of Hellas, as they were making straight for home across the sea, demanding to have my sister Polyxena offered at his tomb, and to receive his guerdon.

    Hecuba 2008

  • I am seeking to avert the vision of the night, the sight of horror which I saw so clearly in my dreams touching my son, who is safe in Thrace, and Polyxena my daughter dear.

    Hecuba 2008

  • Dost mean Polyxena, or whom dost thou inquire about?

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • And wouldst thou see that queen of misery, Hecuba, thou canst; for there she lies before the gates, weeping many a bitter tear for many a tribulation; for at Achilles 'tomb-though she knows not this-her daughter Polyxena has died most piteously; likewise is Priam dead, and her children too;

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • And thou, Polyxena! my child of sorrow, where, oh! where art thou?

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • Hath not then the dead Polyxena, for whom thou wailest, less evil to bear than I?

    The Trojan Women 2008

  • It is the Achaeans 'will to sacrifice thy daughter Polyxena at the mound heaped o'er Achilles' grave; and they appoint me to take the maid and bring her thither, while the son of Achilles is chosen to preside o'er the sacrifice and act as priest.

    Hecuba 2008

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