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Andromache (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides. It dramatises Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione. The date of its first performance is unknown. Some scholars place the date sometime between 428 and 425 BC. [1]
Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse.It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before the court of Louis XIV in the Louvre in the private chambers of the Queen, Marie Thérèse, by the royal company of actors, called "les Grands Comédiens", with Thérèse Du Parc in the title role.
In an article published six months before the opera's premiere, Windt acknowledged that he had known the story of Andromache for many years. The appeal of writing an opera on the topic (his first) was based on "my idea of choosing events and characters that were as remote in time as possible, in order to be able to ascribe new contexts and new lives to these actions and characters that are ...
Andromache Mourning Hector by Jacques-Louis David, 1783. In Greek mythology, Andromache (/ æ n ˈ d r ɒ m ə k iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη, Andromákhē [andromákʰɛ:]) was the wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. [1] She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled.
Hector weds Andromache, who bore him a son, Scamandrius, whom the people of Troy know as Astyanax, and - according to some accounts - Laodamas. Hector throughout the Trojan War brings glory to the Trojans as their best fighter. He is loved by all his people and known for never turning down a fight.
The pilot’s soothing speech came less than 23 hours after an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC, at 8:48 p.m. Wednesday night, killing 67 people.
With Andromache, Helenus and Phoenix, Neoptolemus then sailed to the Epirot Islands and became the king of Epirus. By the enslaved Andromache, daughter of Cilician king Eëtion, Neoptolemus was the father of Molossos (and, according to the myth, therefore an ancestor of Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great), Pielus, Pergamus [9] and ...
"Ela" (Greek: Έλα; transl. "Come [on]") is a song recorded and released as a single by Greek singer Andromache. The song represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy after being internally selected by CyBC, the Cypriot national broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest.