King Priam Priam to be killed by Neoptolemus, Achilles' son. Troy is in ruins. Priam refuses to leave his city, and one by one his family leaves him. His last farewell is with Helen, to whom he speaks gently. There is a moment of stillness before Achilles' son appears to strike the killing blow and Hermes, the drama over, departs for Olympus. King Priam King Priam is an opera by Michael Tippett, to his own libretto. The story is based on Homer's "Iliad", except the birth and childhood of Paris, which are taken from the "Fabulae" of Hyginus. The premiere was on
The Cure at Troy the Northern Ireland conflict. Heaney also reworked "The Testament of Cresseid", and had drawn on the "Oresteia" of Aeschylus for his sequence of poems "Mycenae Lookout". "The Cure at Troy" was first performed in 1990 by the Field Day Theatre Company. 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