Polyxena

/ pɒˈlɪksɪnə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

Her daughter Polyxena is stripped and killed in front of Agamemnon, and soldiers string her up by her feet.

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Just before they threw him from the wall they had killed on Achilles’ grave a young girl, Hecuba’s daughter Polyxena.

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Hecuba’s daughter Polyxena asks to be, and is, sacrificed rather than sexually serve her masters.

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“Gray is almost silver,” Polyxena, portrayed with calm eloquence by Lauren Han, sings in dismay of miscues from Greek men and Trojan women, both of whom believe the other should know their minds.

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The painting depicts the killing of Polyxena, the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy, who according to myth revealed the weakness of Achilles' heel and thus led to his death.

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