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Polyxena
/ pɒˈlɪksɪnə /
noun
- Greek myth a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
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Of Polyxena, be sure that he remembers nothing but that he was holding her hand when her brother slew him.
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Euripides and Sophocles each wrote a tragedy having the sacrifice of Polyxena for the subject.
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At Polyxena's request he later restores the body of Hector to Priam.
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Tzetzes, on the parentage of Iphigeneia, 210;on Polyxena, 217.
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He sacrificed Polyxena, daughter of Priam king of Troy, to the manes of his father.
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