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Lord of Phthia, Achilles! Why, oh, why, when thou hearest the man-slaying (Ah woe!) buffetings of war, dost thou not draw night to our rescue?īy the repetition of l. 1 Aristophanes, Frogs with Scholiast.īeholdest thou this, glorious Achilles, beholdest thou the distress wrought by the destructive lance upon the Danaans, whom thou hast betrayed, yet sittest idle within thy tent?įrom the parodus of the Chorus of Myrmidons. 11, explaining propepôkôs as having the meaning of prodedôkôs l. Harpocration, Glossary of the Ten Attic Orators 259. The Achilles-trilogy, the “tragic Iliad,” consisting of the Myrmidones, Nêreïdes, Phruges ê Hektoros lutra, dramatized (so far as this was appropriate by visible action or reported description) the chief events of the Homeric story of the death of Patroclus, the slaying of Hector, and Priam’s ransom of the body of his son. Possibly the bronze of a shield may be said to be “unshorn,” “unconquered,” since a weapon “shears off” what it strikes (cp. The ancients were hopelessly confused between the words athêrês, atheirês, ateirês, atêrês, atherêtos, atheritos. Restoration and translation are wholly uncertain. 16 (Reitzenstein).īronze, unshorn (?) and stretched over the shield.

11 ( Aischulos Agamemnoni: Memnoni Wellaeuer), Photius, Lexicon 42.

Hesychius, Lexicon.Īnd lo, he draws near and his advance fills us with chilling fear, like a blast from the North that falls on sailors unprepared. 17A) says that Aeschylus accommodated a whole play to this fable.įragments 155, 161, 181, 183 have been referred to the Memnon. Comparing the passage in the Iliad (X 210), in which Zeus weighs the fates of Achilles and Hector, Plutarch ( How a Young Man ought to hear Poems 2. In the Psychostasia Zeus was represented as holding aloft the balance, in the scales of which were the souls of Achilles and Memnon, while beneath each stood Thetis and Eos, praying each for the life of her son. The trilogy consisted of The Memnôn, Psychostasia, The Weighing of Souls (the order is disputed), and a third play unknown, but probably dealing with the death of Achilles. Thetis, attended by the Muses and her sister Nereïds, arrives on the scene bewails her son, whose body she takes from the funeral pyre and carries to the island of Leuce. Achilles routs the Trojans, bursts into the city, is killed by Paris and Apollo his body is borne to the ships by Ajax, while Odysseus keeps the Trojans at bay. Antilochus, the son of Nestor, is slain in battle by the Ethiopian prince, who in turn is slain by Achilles, whose mother begs of Zeus the boon of immortality for her son.

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PAPYRI FRAGMENTS AESCHYLUS FRAGMENTS 57 - 154, TRANSLATED WITH NOTES BY HERBERT WEIR SMYTH MEMNÔNĪccording to the story in the Aethiopis of the Cyclic poet Arctinus of Miletus, as summarized by Proclus in his Chrestomathy 458, Achilles is informed by his mother Thetis that Memnon, the son of Eos, clad in full armour fashioned by Hephaestus, has come to the aid of the Trojans.