Polyxeina
Also known as: Priam's daughter · Family: The Trojans · Role: daughter of Priam · First appears: Book XIV · Part 2
In Book XIV, Polyxeina is identified as Priam’s daughter, and Hecuba wails and shrieks for her. While Troy still stood, Antenor nurtured her in his halls as a bride for his son Eurymachus.
At Achilles’ tomb, Neoptolemus sacrificed Polyxeina to fulfill his father’s demand. Afterward, Antenor buried her near his house, by Ganymedes’ shrine and opposite the temple of Pallas.
Relationship record
Life events
- Achilles' son sacrificed Polyxeina at Achilles' tomb to fulfill his father's demand.(Book XIV · Part 2 · 📍 Achilles' tomb)
- With: Achilles Neoptolemus
- “Into the maid's throat then he plunged the blade Of death: the dear life straightway sobbed she forth, With the last piteous moan of parting breath.”
- Antenor buried Polyxeina near his own house.(Book XIV · Part 2 · 📍 Antenor's home)
- With: Antenor
- “The old man buried her, King Priam's princess-child, nigh his own house, By Ganymedes' shrine, and overagainst The temple of Pallas the Unwearied One.”
Book XIV · Part 2
- parent: Priam “So Priam's child Wailed in the hands of foes.”
- parent: Hecuba “So wailed and shrieked for her child Hecuba:”
- guardian: Antenor “For that, when Troy yet stood, he nurtured her In his fair halls, a bride for his own son Eurymachus.”
- with Eurymachus (Polyxeina was intended as Eurymachus's bride.) “In his fair halls, a bride for his own son Eurymachus.”
- with Achilles (Achilles claims her as spoil and demands her sacrifice at his tomb.) “Be Priam's daughter Polyxeina led-- Whom as my portion of the spoil I claim-- And sacrificed thereon”
- with Neoptolemus (He sacrifices Polyxeina.) “Into the maid's throat then he plunged the blade Of death: the dear life straightway sobbed she forth, With the last piteous moan of parting breath.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.