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house of Hector

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house of Hector
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Editorial note
Hector’s own house, to which Andromache later returns.

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Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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HectorCharacter2 observations
·Direct

Hector arrives at his own house.

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Then Hector left her, and forthwith was at his own house
·Hypothetical

Hector imagines returning to his own home to set the cup of deliverance before the gods.

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should Jove vouchsafe us to set the cup of our deliverance before ever-living gods of heaven in our own homes, when we have chased the Achaeans from Troy.
AndromacheCharacter2 observations
·Direct

Andromache returns to and reaches Hector’s house.

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his wife went back again to her house, weeping bitterly and often looking back towards him. When she reached her home
·Direct

Andromache was weaving at her loom in an inner part of Hector’s house.

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Hector’s wife had as yet heard nothing, for no one had come to tell her that her husband had remained without the gates. She was at her loom in an inner part of the house, weaving a double purple web, and embroidering it with many flowers
great web of purple linenItem1 observation
·Direct

The purple web was on Andromache’s loom in an inner part of Hector’s house.

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She was at her loom in an inner part of the house, weaving a double purple web, and embroidering it with many flowers

Claims

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·Direct

Hector’s house contains women’s rooms whose threshold he searches.

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forthwith was at his own house. He did not find Andromache, for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly. Seeing, then, that she was not within, he stood on the threshold of the women’s rooms
·Direct

An inner part of Hector’s house contains Andromache’s loom and the preparations for his warm bath.

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at her loom in an inner part of the house, weaving a double purple web, and embroidering it with many flowers. She told her maids to set a large tripod on the fire

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·Direct
his own house

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 27

Then Hector left her, and forthwith was at his own house. He did not find Andromache, for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly. Seeing, then, that she was not within, he stood on the threshold of the women’s rooms and said, ‘Women, tell me, and tell me true, where did Andromache go when she left the house? Was it to my sisters, or to my brothers’ wives? or is she at the temple of Minerva where the other women are propitiating the awful goddess?’