Astyanax for if he were allowed to live, it was feared he would avenge his father and rebuild Troy. In the version given by the "Little Iliad" and repeated by Pausanias (x 25.4), he was killed by Neoptolemus (also called Pyrrhus), who threw the infant from the walls. Another version is given in "Iliou persis", in which Odysseus kills Astyanax. It has also been depicted in some Greek vases that Neoptolemus kills Priam, who has taken refuge near a sacred altar, using Astyanax's dead body to club the old king to death, in front of horrified onlookers. In Ovid's "Metamorphoses", the
The Cure at Troy The Cure at Troy The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes is a verse adaptation by Seamus Heaney of Sophocles' play "Philoctetes". It was first published in 1991. The story comes from one of the myths relating to the Trojan War. Heaney's version is well known for its lines:History says, Don't hope<br>On this side of the grave,<br>But then, once in a lifetime<br>The longed-for tidal wave<br>Of justice can rise up<br>And hope and history rhyme. The passage was quoted by Bill Clinton in his remarks to the community in Londonderry in 1995 during the Northern Ireland Peace Process, and by