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Updated: June 5, 2025
The death of Polyxena was resolved on, and the appeased shade of Achilles vanished. The music sometimes wild and sometimes plaintive followed the thoughts of the personages in the drama. The spectators burst into applause. Paphnutius, who applied divine truth to everything murmured "This fable shows how cruel the worshippers of false gods were."
The delineations of Polyxena willing to die and of Phaedra pining away under the grief of secret love, above all the splendid picture of the mystic ecstasies of the Bacchae, are of the greatest beauty in their kind; but they are neither artistically nor morally pure, and the reproach of Aristophanes, that the poet was unable to paint a Penelope, was thoroughly well founded.
There are amongst us many old mothers who weep for their children, now sleeping under the pines of Ida." And Hecuba, formerly queen of the most flourishing city in Asia, and now a slave, bowed her unhappy head in the dust. Then the curtain in front of one of the tents was raised, and the virgin Polyxena appeared. A tremor passed through all the spectators. They had recognised Thais.
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