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POLYXENA , in See also:Greek See also:legend, daughter of See also:Priam, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Troy, and See also:Hecuba. She had been betrothed to See also:Achilles, who was slain by See also:Paris in the See also:temple of See also:Apollo Thymbraeus, where the See also:marriage was to have been celebrated (See also:Hyginus, Fab. rto). The shade of Achilles afterwards appeared to the returning Greeks in the Thracian See also:Chersonese and demanded the See also:sacrifice of Polyxena, who was put to See also:death by See also:Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, on his See also:father's See also:grave (See also:Ovid, Metam. xiii. 440 sqq.). The tragic See also:story is the subject of the Hecuba of See also:Euripides, the Troades of See also:Seneca and the Polyxena of See also:Sophocles, of which only a few fragments remain. According to See also:Philostratus (Heroica, 20, 18), Polyxena fled to the Greeks after the See also:murder of Achilles and committed See also:suicide on his See also:tomb.
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