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Monday, March 30, 2026

.. copy and pasted from the following URL .. from the website titled "Mythic Remembering" .. .. Should Gal Godot play Andromache or Hermione from Euripides's play "Andromache".. in the twenty or thirty or even forty hopefully future "Walt Disney's Medusa" movies? .. .. https://mythicremembering.com/books/andromache/

Andromache by Euripides Also known as: Ἀνδρομάχη, Euripides' Andromache Primary Source Culture: Greek Written: 425-420 BCE Length: 1,409 lines, (~2 hours) Andromache cover In Phthia, the Trojan widow Andromache, now the concubine of Neoptolemus, is persecuted by his wife Hermione and her father Menelaus. Rescued by Peleus, she later learns of Neoptolemus’ murder, while Thetis appears to ordain futures for the house. Description Set at Neoptolemus’ house near Thetis’ shrine in Phthia, Euripides’ tragedy centers on Andromache—the former wife of Hector—now enslaved after Troy’s fall and mother to Neoptolemus’ son. Hermione, Neoptolemus’ Spartan wife, driven by jealousy and dynastic anxiety, accuses Andromache of witchcraft and barrenness, with Menelaus arriving to coerce and threaten the child. A supplication scene at Thetis’ altar and a rhetorical agōn contrast Spartan menace with Andromache’s endurance and Peleus’ aged authority. News arrives that Neoptolemus has been murdered at Delphi (at Orestes’ instigation), upending the household and sending Hermione into flight. The goddess Thetis, appearing ex machina, directs proper burial and decrees a future for Andromache and her son among the Molossians, binding Trojan suffering to a new Hellenic lineage. Historiography The play survives as part of the medieval manuscript tradition of Euripides, supplemented by papyrus fragments and scholia. Its exact production date is uncertain, with stylistic and political readings placing it broadly in the 420s BCE. Scholars note anti-Spartan coloring and complex characterization of female agency and old-age authority. The ending employs a theophany (Thetis) typical of Euripidean closure, and reception has ranged from critiques of structural looseness to praise for its psychological nuance. Date Notes Date is debated; often placed in the later 420s BCE on thematic and political grounds during the Archidamian War. Themes Divination Exile Honor Hospitality Jealousy Justice Maternal Love

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