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Polyxena is considered the Trojan version of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She is not in Homer's Iliad, appearing in works by later poets. An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Polyxena's brother, Prince Troilus, reached the age of twenty.
The killing of Polyxena will occur immediately after the capture of the city as a death offering to the chief instrument of Agamemnon's victory. Technical terms of sacrifice, always used of the animal oblation, are applied to both girls: Iphigenia is a hostia adorned with the infula, while Polyxena is compared to a uictima falling beneath the ...
Políxena es sacrificada por Neoptólemo. Ánfora tirrénica de figuras negras, decorada por el Pintor de Timiades hacia 570-550 a. C. En la mitología griega Políxena o Políxene (en griego Πολυξένη Poluxénê) era una princesa, hija de Hécuba y Príamo, reyes de Troya .
Polyxena was a princess of Troy in Greek mythology, daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. She was the Trojan equivalent of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who was sacrificed so that the Greek fleet would sail to Troy. Who were the parents of Polyxena? The parents of Polyxena were Priam and Hecuba. Polyxena Associations. Apollo.
This paper seeks to examine a set of evidence in relation to the twin sacrifices of Iphigenia, Princess of Mycenae, and Polyxena, Princess of Troy at the beginning and end of the Trojan War, respectively.
- Giulia Biffis
theme in Euripides.1 Besides Iphigenia in the Jphigenia in /lulis, other examples are Polyxena in the Hecuba, Macaria in the Hera cleidae, Menoeceus in the Phoenissae, and, in the lost plays, the daughter (ultimately daughters) of Erechtheus and Praxithea in the Erechtheus and Phrixus in the Phrixus. These voluntary sacrificial
Iphigenia is also linked to Cassandra by their shared survival of death through transformation into chthonic beings, representing not just female victimization but the valorization and triumph of the chthonic feminine over Olympian patriarchy.
