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	polymestor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Greek mythology, Polymestor was a King of Thrace.
		Polydorus, King Priam's youngest son, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War.
		After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /polymestor.html (127 words)

	Hecabe 1, Greek Mythology Link.
		Agamemnon was fully informed by Hecabe 1 of the crime perpetrated by Polymestor 1, and having at the moment the queen's daughter Cassandra lying by his side in bed, was inclined to put things aright, even though he was reluctant to invite criticism from the Achaeans, who regarded Polymestor 1 as an ally.
		Now Polymestor 1, unable to curb his bold tongue, and likewise unable to forget he was a barbarian (for only such could conceive the idea of murdering a guest for gold), would have loved to rip Hecabe 1 into rags.
		Iliona, who was Polydorus 3's sister, brought him up as her own son; and the son Deipylus 1 that she had by Polymestor 1, she brought as if he were her brother, thinking that if anything happened to either of them, she could give the other to her parents at Troy.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Hecabe1.html (3149 words)

	Hecabe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Polymestor is sent for and brings his two young sons.
		Polymestor claims now that he feared that Polydorus might raise an army to avenge the sacking of Troy.
		Polymestor says that a prophet in Thrace revealed that Hecabe will turn into a dog and throw herself from the masthead of the ship into the sea.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /~delahoyd/hecabe.html (554 words)

	Crash and Byrne: Hecuba
		Despite her status of slave, she is allowed to take her revenge on the Thracian king, for he not only broke his vow of hospitality toward her son, but he desecrated the body and denied it proper burial (both of which are big things to the ancient Greeks).
		Polymestor's children, after being murdered, come out of the tent dragging long pieces of blood red fabric.
		Using this simple prop, the director (Alex Lippard) was able to show the death of the sons, the blindness of Polymestor, and by having the children carrying the cloth that ends with him, connect their deaths to his actions.
	crashandbyrne.blogspot.com /2004/10/hecuba.html (1119 words)

	HECUBA - LoveToKnow Article on HECUBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Her fate is told in various ways, \most of which connect her with the promontory Cynossema, on the Thracian shore of the Hellespont.
		According to Euripides (in the Hecuba), her youngest son Polydorus had been placed during the siege of Troy under the care of Polymestor, king of Thrace.
		She was acquitted by Agamemnon; but, as Polymestor foretold, she was turned into a dog, and her grave became a mark for ships (Ovid, Metam.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HECUBA.htm (237 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Polymestor, reminiscent of Cleon, attempts to justify murder in a rational sophistic argument.
		Polymestor, however, since he is a figure in a drama, whose personal concerns and drives are analyzed, is more 'human' than the historical figure of Cleon.
		In the context of the drama, she condemns Polymestor for being greedy, for killing a guest, and for betraying a duty.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Classics/bcj/01-04.html (2657 words)

	Hecuba
		Polymestor had received part of the Trojan treasury to be held in trust for Polydorus.
		When Polymestor saw the way things were going, he decided to appropriate the treasure for himself and killed Polydorus, throwing the body into the sea.
		Hecuba quickly sent a message to Polymestor, who was unaware of her discovery, telling him she knew where more treasure was hidden and that he should recover it for her son.
	www.stanford.edu /~plomio/hecuba.html (872 words)

	Letter from Hecabe to Polymestor, Greek Mythology Link.
		In order to avenge her son Hecabe 1 sent a message to Polymestor 1, begging him to come to the Achaean camp and bring his sons, so that they all would listen to something she had to tell them.
		For, as he told me just a few days ago, when a royal person is humiliated, whoever he or she might be, royalty itself suffers and is weakened, and with it authority, and property, and order and peace and prosperity decay.
		Yes, you, dear Polymestor, are my heir, not by blood as we both know, but instead by the lasting works of friendship, which I hold higher than blood.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/004Postscripts/HecabeToPolymestor.html (1467 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 460 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His body was afterwards washed upon the coast, where it was found and recognised by his mother Hecabe, who together with other Trojan captives took vengeance upon Polymestor by killing his two children, and putting out his eyes.
		The Greeks determined to destroy the race of Priam sent to Polymestor, promising him Electra for his wife, and a large amount of gold, if he would kill Polydorus.
		Polymestor was prevailed upon, and he accordingly slew his own son instead of Polydorus.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2794.html (804 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Many times he was my guest: once again we find allusion to the violation of guest-friendship (xenia), which is the theme of the second half of the Hecabe.
		Polymestor had been treated hospitably by Priam and Hecabe, but does not give their son Polydorus the same hospitable treatment.
		By killing a guest, Polymestor shows no regard for Zeus, the god who protects the rights of guests.
	www3.baylor.edu /~John_Thorburn/hecabe.html (1444 words)

	Polymestor
		Near the end of the Trojan War, Priam sent his youngest son Polydorus (2) to Polymestor's court.
		Priam sent along with his son a large amount of treasures.
		When Troy fell, Polymestor wanted the treasures for himself and threw the young boy into the ocean.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/p/polymestor.html (76 words)

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		HECUBA Polymestor, I am holden in such wretched plight that I blush to meet thine eye; for my present evil case makes me ashamed to face thee who didst see me in happier days, and I cannot look on thee with unfaltering gaze.
		POLYMESTOR Woe is me! worsted by a woman and a slave, I am, it seems, to suffer by unworthy hands.
		POLYMESTOR Die shalt thou; and to thy tomb shall be given a nameHECUBA Recalling my form, or what wilt thou tell me? POLYMESTOR "The hapless hound's grave," a mark for mariners." HECUBA 'Tis naught to me, now that thou hast paid me forfeit.
	www.yuchan.com /~gengojoho/literary_works/co000575.txt (8723 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In sharp contrast to the presentation of Hecuba, that of Polymestor moves from specious ingratiation to the savage frustration of blinded and impotent fury.
		The part of Polyxena (the other role which, along with that of Polymestor, would have been played by the original 'second actor') was taken by Amy Gowan, a veteran from two former performances with the Drama Group.
		Miss Gowan played Polyxena at first with poignancy and then, with a sudden (and dramatically intended) access of power, as the maiden confronts the flinty Odysseus, who is to lead her to her doom.
	didaskalia.open.ac.uk /issues/vol4no1/conacher.html (889 words)

	Lecture 29
		POLYMESTOR No, but close over you when you fall from the masthead.
		POLYMESTOR Her shall the wife of Agamemnon, grim keeper of his palace, slay.
		POLYMESTOR And she shall slay this king as well, lifting high the axe.
	www.uh.edu /~cldue/3307/2001/lecture29.html (672 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 501 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After the capture of Troy Polymestor puts the boy to death, in order to get possession of the gold, and throws the body into the sea.
		Out of revenge she, with the help of the captive Trojan women, kills the two children of the murderer, and blinds Polymestor himself.
		According to another version, Illone, Priam's daughter and Polymestor's wife, brings up the brother, who has been committed to her charge, as her own son, while she gives up her child Deiphilus (or Delpy-lus) instead of Polydorus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0504.html (476 words)

	Review of "Hecuba"
		He has hacked her son to pieces and thrown him into the sea in order to acquire the portion of the family fortune with which he as entrusted.
		It is a relief to see this woman, so completely robbed of her selfhood in the first act, reclaim some sense of mission and dignity.
		But that mission is the murder of Polymestor's sons in revenge for her own son's death.
	myvanwy.tripod.com /companies/wtf/hecuba.html (931 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Hecuba, Donmar Warehouse, review
		Her encounter with Polymestor and his children, when she reverts to being a sociable and friendly woman, is a masterpiece of duplicity and she managed to convince me that the character was acting, a little gem of art concealing Art.
		The ending of the play, after Polymestor has relayed the prophesy that she will become a bitch, where she falls, dog-like onto all fours and scrabbles the sand in a manner is horrifying, yet a fitting climax to an overwhelming evening.
		The costumes were modern, suits for Ulysses and Polymestor; uniform for Agamemnon and semi-Greek blouses and skirts for the women, which fitted in with the semi-contemporary dialogue of Frank McGuiness.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_hecuba_donmar_rev.html (1065 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.11.25
		The introduction is thorough and well-organized and includes a summary of the play and sections on the original context of the drama and its possible date, its literary antecedents and Euripidean innovations, problems of interpretation, and a note on the Greek text used.
		In the section on problems of interpretation, Gregory rightly observes, "the assessment of these violent acts [the murder of Polydorus, the sacrifice of Polyxena, and the blinding of Polymestor and murder of his young sons] constitutes the central interpretative problem of the play" (xxiii).
		Gregory concludes that the "tekmar [sign] of Cynossema," the tomb at the end of the Thracian peninsula, "serves to draw together the heroic age and the fifth century, delivering a warning that is relevant to both...
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-11-25.html (822 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Hecuba by Euripides
		Now my father, when Phrygia's capital was threatened with destruction by the spear of Hellas, took alarm and conveyed me secretly from the land of Troy unto Polymestor's house, his friend in Thrace, who sows these fruitful plains of Chersonese, curbing by his might a nation delighting in horses.
		Polymestor, I am holden in such wretched plight that I blush to meet thine eye; for my present evil case makes me ashamed to face thee who didst see me in happier days, and I cannot look on thee with unfaltering gaze.
		Enter then the tent, for the Argives are eager to set sail from Troy for home; and, when thou hast accomplished all that is appointed thee, thou shalt return with thy children to that bourn where thou hast lodged my son.
	classics.mit.edu /Euripides/hecuba.html (8590 words)

	The secrets of Illyrians
		Daughter of Priam, wife of the treacherous Polymestor and mother by him of Deipylus.
		Iliona brought her brother up as her own son; and the son Deipylus that she had by Polymestor, she brought as if he were her brother, thinking that if anything happened to either of them, she could give the other to her parents at Troy.
		But when he returned home to Thrace, still not knowing about his Trojan origin and believing Polymestor and Iliona to be his parents, he thought that the Oracle had spoken falsely.
	www.geocities.com /alijecipuri (5661 words)

	Aeneid 3, a book replete with monstra that form some of the most memorable episodes in the poem, opens with a scene ...
		In Euripides, Polymestor's greed and betrayal of Priam lead to the murder of Polydorus and the attempt to disguise it (cf.
		Euripides, although he is not Vergil's only source for the Polydorus story, provides him with a memorable staging of problems seen as endemic to Roman judicial process.
		This helps make Polydorus' funeral all the more appealing as an alternative to Polymestor's "trial," since the Trojans themselves are implicated in a process of inquiry tainted by corruption.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/dufallo.html (568 words)

	David Strathairn \| David Strathairn Online
		Her daughter Polyxena is dragged off to become a human sacrifice; then she discovers the corpse of Polydoros, the one son she thought had survived the war.
		Polymestor, the friend she had left him with for safekeeping, murdered him for his money.
		Hecuba persuades the Greek king, Agamemnon, to let her set a trap for Polymestor and blinds him while the Trojan women kill his children.
	strathairn.freespaces.com /theatre/hecuba.html (236 words)

	CLAS3135 Greek Tragedy: Euripides Hecabe
		No dominant central figure (as Ajax, Heracles): powerless captives (Hecabe, Polyxena) and those with power over them (Odysseus, Agamemnon)—but consider role-reversals: the powerless take control of their fate (in different ways), the powerful are constrained by difficult situations.
		Polymestor has free, unconstrained choice—and his choice unequivocally wrong.
		Euripides’ version of the story is probably new invention: Polymestor also not attested in earlier tradition.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /classics/resources/tragedy/hecabe.htm (2185 words)

	Hecuba.html
		At 968 Hecuba begins her cruelly ironic deception of Polymestor by simulating shame for her misfortune.
		1100-06 Polymestor appears to wish for suicide in the face of unbearable suffering or dishonor.
		Trial and verdict help the illusion of justice for Hecuba, but her triumph quickly becomes ashes when Polymestor foretells her own and Cassandra's death.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/4375/Hecuba.html (1506 words)

	Euripides - Plays - Hecabe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The ghost of Polydoros, youngest son of Priam and Hecabe, tells the audience how he was killed by his guest-friend and protector, king Polymestor of Thrace, once Troy fell.
		Distraught at the death of her last remaining son and hope, Hecabe pleads with Agamemnon for the opportunity to take revenge on Polymestor.
		She lures the Thracian king, who is still pretending that Polydoros is alive, into her tents by promising to tell him the location of treasure.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /classics/staff/LSF/Euripides/hecabe.html (230 words)

	Euripides: Hecuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Luring him into the women's tent with the promise of more Trojan treasure, she and the women set upon him and his two boys, killing the children and blinding him.
		Hecuba is also allowed to justify this action in a legal setting against Polymestor with Agamemnon presiding, proving Polymestor's unjustitied murder of her son.
		Polymestor, defeated, prophesies Hecuba's dim future: her death at sea and the subsequent naming of her resting place as Cynnoseina, the bitch's grave.
	www.bastard.net /~smartass/james/academic/classics/txt/hecuba.html (241 words)

	GO Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After receiving assurances that he will not intervene from Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, she blinds Polymestor and kills his two sons.
		Darrell D'Silva makes Polymestor tragic as well as evil in his blind rage at the loss of his sight and his children.
		When Euripides wrote "Hecuba," he was addressing an audience of victors and reminding them that victory is not always sweet, and it is certainly not without guilt.
	www.go-brooklyn.com /html/issues/_vol28/28_26/hecuba2.html (718 words)

	Hecuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Her fate was told in various ways, most of which connected her with the promontory Cynossema (Dog's Monument) on the Hellespont.
		According to Euripides (in the Hecuba), her youngest son, Polydorus, had been placed under the care of Polymestor, king of Thrace.
		When the Greeks reached the Thracian Chersonese on their way home, she discovered that her son had been murdered and in revenge put out the eyes of Polymestor and murdered his two sons.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/NEWhp252/halli/hecuba.html (130 words)

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