Lizzie Driver

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Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales · Iliad for Boys and Girls-Alfred John Church · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

She seemed like a madwoman, so much haste did she make, and the nurse went with her carrying the child.

Then Hector ran towards the gate, and Andromache saw him from where she stood on the wall, and made haste to meet him.

and the nurse came with her, carrying the child, Hector's only son, a beautiful boy with a head like a star, so bright with his golden hair.

His father called him Scamandrius, after the river which runs across the plains of Troy.

But the people called him Astyianicus, which means the city king, because it was his father who saved the city.

And Hector smiled when he saw the child.

But Andromeche did not smile, for she caught her husband by the hand and wept, saying, O Hector, your courage will be your death.

You have no pity on your wife and child, and you do not spare yourself.

some day all the greeks will join together and rush on you and kill you for she did not believe that any one of them could conquer him but if i lose you then it will be better for me to die than to live i have no comfort but you my father is dead for the great achilles killed him when he took our city he killed him but he did him a great honor for he would not take his arms for a spoil but burnt them with him

Yes, and the nymphs of the mountains planted poplars by his grave.

I had seven brothers, and they also are dead, for the great Achilles killed them in one day.

And my mother also is dead, for when my father had redeemed her with a great sum of money, Artemis slew her with one of her deadly arrows.

But you are father to me, and mother, and brother, and husband also.

Have pity on me, and stay here upon the wall, lest you leave me a widow, and your child an orphan."

and set your people out in order of battle by this fig-tree for here the wall is easier to attack here too i see the bravest chiefs of the greeks hector answered her dear wife leave these things to me i will look after them one thing i cannot bear that any son or daughter of troy should see me skulking from battle

i hate the very thought of it i must always be in front alas i know that priam and the people of priam and this holy city of troy will perish but it is not for troy or for the people of troy nor even for my father and my mother that i care so much

It is for you, when I think how some Greek will carry you away captive, and you be set to spin, or to carry water from the spring in a distant land, and some one will say, See, that slave woman there, she was the wife of Hector, who was the bravest of the Trojans.

Then Hector stretched out his arms to take the child, but the child drew back into the bosom of the nurse.

making a great cry, for he was frightened by the helmet which shone so brightly, and by the horsehair plume which nodded so awfully.

And both his father and mother laughed to hear him.

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