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    Andromache: Greek & Roman Classics
    Andromache: Greek & Roman Classics
    Andromache: Greek & Roman Classics
    Audiobook1 hour

    Andromache: Greek & Roman Classics

    Written by Euripides

    Narrated by Sonya Joseph, Andrew McGinn, Amy Escobar and

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    Euripides' classic tragedy in a full cast audio production. After Troy fell to the Greeks, Andromache, the wife of the slain Trojan king Hector, was taken as prize and given to Achilles' son Neoptolemus as his concubine. He treated her kindly, and in the fullness of time she bore him a son. But Neoptolemus went on to take as his wife Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus, but she could bear him no children. Enraged with jealousy, Hermione plots the death of Andromache, and the play opens with Andromache taking sanctuary at the temple of Thetis, the goddess who is also Achilles' mother - Achilles, the man who killed her husband.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMondello Publishing
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781940650098
    Andromache: Greek & Roman Classics
    Author

    Euripides

    Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. He was born on Salamis Island around 480 BC to his mother, Cleito, and father, Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens. He had two disastrous marriages, and both his wives—Melite and Choerine (the latter bearing him three sons)—were unfaithful. He became a recluse, making a home for himself in a cave on Salamis. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. He became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education. The details of his death are uncertain.

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    • 3/5
      The play is worthy of four stars, but the recording is only worthy of three. The cast is fine up until the arrival of Thetis. The dialogue of Thetis is delivered with weird augmentation that renders it practically insensible.