... she laments her lost past "as Hektor's wife, soon mother of Hektor's son "Andromache, in the old days oh so lucky."" (Andromache, Euripides, lines 4-5) In a world where a woman is defined by her husband, Andromache considered herself lucky to have been the wife of a Trojan prince and hero, albeit a fallen one. It is interesting to note, however, that this perfect marriage ... sky blue waters - (In the Lake of the Woods, O'Brien, p. 286) a clear suggestion that the author prefers this reality to the other possibilities mentioned in other hypotheses. Just as the angles of reflection would...

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