place
Thebe
also: Θήβα, Θήβας, Cilician Thebe, Thebe under Plakos
Andromache's home city under Mount Plakos near Troy — 'holy Thebe' in fr. 44 — distinct from the Boeotian and Egyptian cities of the name. In the Iliad, Achilles sacks it and kills her father and brothers.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Book Two §44 Thebe
Andromache's home city under Mount Plakos — 'holy Thebe' — which Achilles will sack, killing her father and seven brothers (Iliad 6.414 ff.). Her dowry-voyage starts from a place the audience knew as a future ruin.