[606] Arrangement (probable): protagonist, Hecuba; deuteragonist, Athena, Cassandra, Andromache, Helen; tritagonist, Poseidon, Talthybius, Menelaus.
[607] Ælian, Var. Hist. ii. 8.
[608] There are reminders of the western lands in vv. 220 sqq.
[609] vv. 703 sqq.
[610] vv. 1158 sqq.
[611] v. 764: ὦ βάρβαρ’ ἐξευρόντες Ἕλληνες κακά (Andromache’s phrase).
[612] vv. 884 sqq. (The first line refers to air.) If we possess any evidence as to the theological belief of the poet himself it is probably contained in these lines.
[613] vv. 469 sqq., 841 sqq., 1060 sqq. (especially the poignant μέλει μέλει μοι), 1240 sqq.
[614] vv. 1204 sqq.:—
τοῖς τρόποις γὰρ αἱ τύχαι,