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Lycophron · 3rd century BC

Alexandra

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Ancient Sources / Lycophron / Alexandra

A slave reports to King Priam the long prophecy that Cassandra uttered in her prison: the fall of Troy, the wanderings and deaths of the Greek leaders on their returns, her own fate, and the fortunes of Aeneas and his descendants in the west.

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Greek original with English translation, 11 passages, about 12700 words in English.
Translator
A. W. Mair (1921)
Edition
A. W. Mair and G. R. Mair (eds. and trs.), Callimachus and Lycophron, Aratus, Loeb Classical Library, London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam, 1921 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus, tlg0341.tlg002 perseus-grc2)
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Lycophron, Alexandra 1 (by line number)

Contents · 11 passages

  1. 1–114Alexandra 1–114: The slave's report; Troy burnt before, and the judge of three goddesses sails to seize a wife949 words
  2. 115–251Alexandra 115–251: The wife of five husbands; the heifer sacrificed to the winds; Cassandra's regret for ignored oracles1180 words
  3. 252–405Alexandra 252–405: The fall of Troy's defenders, Cassandra's own seizure, and the wreck of the Greek fleet1324 words
  4. 406–540Alexandra 406–540: Graves far from home; five exiles settle on an island; a god sows quarrel among the doomed1210 words
  5. 541–693Alexandra 541–693: Quarrelling cousins, the leaders' settlements in the West, and one man's wanderings1405 words
  6. 694–838Alexandra 694–838: The three singing maidens at the Tyrrhenian shore, the wanderer's homecoming, and a husband's search for his bride1167 words
  7. 839–978Alexandra 839–978: Landfalls in Italy and Libya, the builder of the horse, and the exiles in Sicily1247 words
  8. 979–1125Alexandra 979–1125: Colonies in the West, a man killed in his bath, and Cassandra's own death1227 words
  9. 1126–1252Alexandra 1126–1252: Cassandra's shrine and the maidens' penance, her mother and brother, and the founder of thirty towers1127 words
  10. 1253–1368Alexandra 1253–1368: The sow's colony and the Sibyl, and the chain of rapes and reprisals between the two continents927 words
  11. 1369–1474Alexandra 1369–1474: The conquerors to come, Cassandra's closing complaint, and the slave's last words896 words

English translation by A. W. Mair (1921). Original text: A. W. Mair and G. R. Mair (eds. and trs.), Callimachus and Lycophron, Aratus, Loeb Classical Library, London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam, 1921 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus, tlg0341.tlg002 perseus-grc2).

Greek text and translation from the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library, Greek text); translation public domain (OCR from the Internet Archive scan). Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.