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Character · Collective

Trojan women

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Canonical name
Trojan women
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

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women of Troy

Alternative name · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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wall of Ilius1 observation
·Direct

The Trojan women joined Andromache’s lament at the wall.

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“In such wise did she cry aloud amid her tears, and the women joined in her lament.”

Claims

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·Direct

The Trojan women crowd around Helen on the high tower.

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“Trojan women crowding round her”
·Direct

Trojan wives and daughters run to Hector asking after relatives and are made sorrowful.

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“the wives and daughters of the Trojans came running towards him to ask after their sons, brothers, kinsmen, and husbands: he told them to set about praying to the gods, and many were made sorrowful as they heard him”
·Direct

The Trojan women raise their hands to Minerva with a loud cry.

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“The women lifted up their hands to the goddess with a loud cry”
·Reported

Hector presents the Trojan women as threatened with enslavement and removal by ship, and claims he is their foremost defender against bondage.

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“rob our Trojan women of their freedom, and carry them off in your ships to your own country. Fool; Hector and his fleet horses were ever straining their utmost to defend them. I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them”
·Hypothetical

Achilles predicts that Trojan and Dardanian women will wring tears from their tender cheeks in great sorrow.

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“Trojan and Dardanian women wring tears from their tender cheeks with both their hands in the grievousness of their great sorrow”
·Direct

Before the Achaeans came, Trojan wives and daughters used the stone washing-troughs beside the springs to wash their clothes in peacetime.

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“the goodly washing-troughs of stone, where in the time of peace before the coming of the Achaeans the wives and fair daughters of the Trojans used to wash their clothes”
·Direct

The Trojan women join Andromache’s lament.

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“the women joined in her lament”
·Hypothetical

Andromache predicts Trojan women will be carried captive to Achaean ships.

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“Our women will be carried away captives to the ships”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“the Trojan women crowding round her”
·Direct
“the wives and daughters of the Trojans”
·Direct
“I dare not look Trojan men and Trojan women in the face”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 33

Then she went to call Helen, and found her on a high tower with the Trojan women crowding round her. She took the form of an old woman who used to dress wool for her when she was still in Lacedaemon, and of whom she was very fond. Thus disguised she plucked her by perfumed robe and said, ‘Come hither; Alexandrus says you are to go to the house; he is on his bed in his own room, radiant with beauty and dressed in gorgeous apparel. No one would think he had just come from fighting, but rather that he was going to a dance, or had done dancing and was sitting down.’