A New Widow and Her Orphan: Andromache’s Lament for Hektor in Iliad 22 (opens in new tab)

Once Achilles kills Hektor and starts to mistreat his body, the narrative provides the clearest judgment on his acts as possible by marking the treatment as shameful (ἀεικέα μήδετο ἔργα.) and then moving from his excess to the responses of the epic’s internal audience. Almost too late do we as the external viewers of the … Continue reading A New Widow and Her Orphan: Andromache’s Lament for Hektor in Iliad 22