Polyxena

/ pɒˈlɪksɪnə /

noun

Greek myth a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost

Of Polyxena, be sure that he remembers nothing but that he was holding her hand when her brother slew him.

Euripides and Sophocles each wrote a tragedy having the sacrifice of Polyxena for the subject.

At Polyxena's request he later restores the body of Hector to Priam.

Tzetzes, on the parentage of Iphigeneia, 210;on Polyxena, 217.

He sacrificed Polyxena, daughter of Priam king of Troy, to the manes of his father.

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