... consume whatever is in their path, be it Glauke, king Creon, or their own children. Andromache's experiences with marriage, however, seems to illustrate the ambivalence of the institution itself, as her first marriage gives a glimpse of what an ideal should be, and her second, of what a nightmare it can be. ... need [being] off at Delphi."" (Andromache, Euripides, lines 49-51), Hektor fights the Trojan war, among other reasons, to also try to protect Andromache and his son, as he says in the Iliad "But may I be dead and the piled earth hide me under before I hear you crying and know by t...

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