Jane Cocker added to terzine Timore/page:
Refers to the story of
Perseus and Andromeda
Refers to the goddess Fortuna
"The story is taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The princess Andromeda was engaged to Phineas, but instead married Perseus, who had rescued her from a sea-monster as he returned from his mission to cut off the Gorgon Medusa’s head. At Perseus’ and Andromeda’s wedding celebrations, Phineas and his armed followers burst in to claim back Andromeda, but Perseus held up Medusa’s head and turned them to stone."
## Hm. That's interesting. Phineas shows yealousy and yealousy is a suit. It's the place of the page ... and one should expect on the page position the quality of the suit "fear" , cause fear is the first in the row, as the poem is presented. Which would make sense:
Page = Fear
Knight = yealousy
Queen = hope
King = Amore
So here is a contradiction to that, what would be normally expectable.
Jane Cocker added to terzine Timore/knight:
"King Ptolemy endured against
Pompey, to use for fear
That Ceasar did not remove his reign."
Ptolemy had Pompey beheaded
hoping to win Ceasar's favour
"Arriving in Egypt, Pompey's fate was decided by three counselors of Ptolemy, the boy-king. While Pompey waited offshore for word, they argued the cost of offering him refuge with Caesar already en route for Egypt. Because "dead men don't bite," it was decided to murder Caesar's enemy to ingratiate themselves with him. Alone, the great Pompey was lured toward a supposed audience on shore in a small boat in which he recognized two old comrades-in-arms from the glorious, early battles. They were his assassins. While he sat in the boat, studying his speech for the boy king, they stabbed him in the back with sword and dagger. Cutting his head off, the body was left, contemptuously unattended and naked, on the shore for a slave to tend and cremate on a pyre of broken ship's timbers. When Caesar arrived, a slave offered him Pompey's head;" …he turned away from him with loathing, as from an assassin; and when he received Pompey's signet ring on which was engraved a lion holding a sword in his paws, he burst into tears." Plutarch, 80. "
http://heraklia.fws1.com/contemporaries/pompey/
Ptolemaios is a boy/king, actually in the age of a "page". Phineas is much more knight than Ptolemaios ...
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"In the springtime of 51 BC, Ptolemy Auletes died and left his kingdom in his will to his eighteen year old daughter, Cleopatra, and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII who was twelve at the time. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt. She had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI and Berenice IV as well as a younger sister, Arsinoe IV. There were two younger brothers as well, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV. It is thought that Cleopatra VI may have died as a child and Auletes had Berenice beheaded. At Ptolemy Auletes' death, Pompey, a Roman leader, was left in charge of the children. During the two centuries that preceded Ptolemy Auletes death, the Ptolemies were allied with the Romans. The Ptolemies' strength was failing and the Roman Empire was rising. City after city was falling to the Roman power and the Ptolemies could do nothing but create a pact with them. During the later rule of the Ptolemies, the Romans gained more and more control over Egypt. Tributes had to be paid to the Romans to keep them away from Egypt. When Ptolemy Auletes died, the fall of the Dynasty appeared to be even closer.
According to Egyptian law, Cleopatra was forced to have a consort, who was either a brother or a son, no matter what age, throughout her reign. She was married to her younger brother Ptolemy XIII when he was twelve, however she soon dropped his name from any official documents regardless of the Ptolemaic insistence that the male presence be first among co-rulers. She also had her own portrait and name on coins of that time, ignoring her brother's. When Cleopatra became co-regent, her world was crumbling down around her. Cyprus, Coele-Syria and Cyrenaica were gone. There was anarchy abroad and famine at home. Cleopatra was a strong-willed Macedonian queen who was brilliant and dreamed of a greater world empire. She almost achieved it. Whether her way of getting it done was for her own desires or for the pursuit of power will never be known for certain. However, like many Hellenistic queens, she was passionate but not promiscuous. As far as we know, she had no other lovers other than Caesar and Antony. Many believe that she did what she felt was necessary to try to save Alexandria, whatever the price.
By 48 BC, Cleopatra had alarmed the more powerful court officials of Alexandria by some of her actions. For instance, her mercenaries killed the Roman governor of Syria's sons when they came to ask for her assistance for their father against the Parthians. A group of men led by Theodotus, the eunuch Pothinus and a half-Greek general, Achillas, overthrew her in favor of her younger brother. They believed him to be much easier to influence and they became his council of regency. Cleopatra is thought to have fled to Thebaid. Between 51 and 49 BC, Egypt was suffering from bad harvests and famine because of a drought which stopped the much needed Nile flooding. Ptolemy XIII signed a decree on October 27, 50 BC which banned any shipments of grain to anywhere but Alexandria. It is thought that this was to deprive Cleopatra and her supporters who were not in Alexandria. Regardless, she started an army from the Arab tribes which were east of Pelusium. During this time, she and her sister Arsinoe moved to Syria. They returned by way of Ascalon which may have been Cleopatra's temporary base.
In the meantime, Pompey had been defeated at Pharsalus in August of 48 BC. He headed for Alexandria hoping to find refuge with Ptolemy XIII, of whom Pompey was a senate-appointed guardian. Pompey did not realize how much his reputation had been destroyed by Pharsalus until it was too late. He was murdered as he stepped ashore on September 28, 48 BC. The young Ptolemy XIII stood on the dock and watched the whole scene. Four days later, Caesar arrived in Alexandria. He brought with him thirty-two hundred legionaries and eight hundred cavalry. He also brought twelve other soldiers who bore the insignia of the Roman government who carried a bundle of rods with an ax with a blade that projected out. This was considered a badge of authority that gave a clear hint of his intentions. There were riots that followed in Alexandria. Ptolemy XIII was gone to Pelusium and Caesar placed himself in the royal palace and started giving out orders. The eunuch, Pothinus, brought Ptolemy back to Alexandria. Cleopatra had no intentions of being left out of any deals that were going to be made. She had herself smuggled in through enemy lines rolled in a carpet. She was delivered to Caesar. Both Cleopatra and Ptolemy were invited to appear before Caesar the next morning. By this time, she and Caesar were already lovers and Ptolemy realized this right away. He stormed out screaming that he had been betrayed, trying to arouse the Alexandrian mob. He was soon captured by Caesar's guards and brought back to the palace. It is thought that Caesar had planned to make Cleopatra the sole ruler of Alexandria. He thought she would be a puppet for Rome.
The Alexandrian War was started when Pothinus called for Ptolemy XIII's soldiers in November and surrounded Caesar in Alexandria with twenty thousand men. During the war, parts of the Alexandrian Library and some of the warehouses were burned. However, Caesar did manage to capture the Pharos lighthouse, which kept his control of the harbor. Cleopatra's sister, Arsinoe, escaped from the palace and ran to Achillas. She was proclaimed the queen by the Macedonian mob and the army. Cleopatra never forgave her sister for this. During the fighting, Caesar executed Pothinus and Achillas was murdered by Ganymede. Ptolemy XIII drowned in the Nile while he was trying to flee.
Because of his death, Cleopatra was now the sole ruler of Egypt. "
From
http://interoz.com/egypt/cleopatr.htm
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So: Ptolemaios is a boy/king, actually in the age of a "page". Phineas is much more knight than Ptolemaios ...
but the boy/king is on the position of the knight and the yealous knight Phineas with his stolen bride on the position of page.
So the analyzer asks: Why? Simple error, or intended confusion of the poet?
Perhaps this riddle will be solved, when we detect other contradictions.
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The Queen's position is taken by Andromache:
13) FEAR prevented Andromache from saving
Her son, seeing Ulysses: and made him enter
Into the same tomb as his father Hector.
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Seneca's Trojan woman, abstract from an Internet source (I lost the source)
1. From lines 1-159 the Trojan King Priam's widow Hecuba and the Chorus (women of fallen Troy) set the play's tone.
2. From 160-368, after Talthybius announces the will of the shade Achilles that Polyxena and Astyanax must die, King Agamemnon and Achilles' son Pyrrhus assess the situation.
3. From 369-402, Calchas delivers his opinion and the Chorus comment on what they have just heard from Agamemnon and Pyrrhus.
4. From 403-521, Andromache enters and converses with an old servant, her son by fallen Hector near them.
5. From 522-810, Andromache and Ulysses (Odysseus) argue over the fate of Astyanax.
6. From 811-1007, first the Chorus speak, and then Helen, entering to dress Polyxena and carry out the Greeks' designs, argues with Andromache and Hecuba.
7. From 1008-end, after the Chorus discuss the value of shared grief, the Messenger enters and , at Andromache's bidding, recounts the killing of Polyxena and Astyanax.
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"Astyanax was the son of Hector and Andromache, and therefore the eldest grandson of Priam. He died only a baby during the fall of Troy, when the son of Achilles, Neoptolemus, threw him over the wall of Troy. Neoptolemus said to Andromache, "Since my father killed his father he might try to avenge the death. He also could become King of Troy, and we want no more kings of Troy!"
Iliad VI, 403, 466; Virgil II, 457.
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"Andromache, remembered as Hector 1's loving wife, was assigned to Neoptolemus at the end of the Trojan War. Having become by force her enemy's concubine, she bore his children in Epirus, the Adriatic coastal region of Hellas, between the Ambracian Gulf and Illyria (Albania), where Neoptolemus was king. After the death of Neoptolemus, who was murdered by Orestes 2 on account of their dispute over Helen's daughter Hermione, Andromache married her first husband's brother Helenus 1, whom Neoptolemus had also brought from Troy to Epirus. At the end of her life, Andromache returned to Asia with one of her sons. "
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So Andromache is the wife, who sacrifies her son and goes with the victor. The "fearful wife" - the position makes logic.
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14) FEAR: Dionysius, instead of a barber,
Had his own daughters shave him with coals, in order
To avoid iron; and in the end he did not avoid it.
Seems to be a Dionysios, who had an bad oracle about iron. I don't know, who he is. Somebody else?