The Argives

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.9 Argive

  The Greeks before Troy, whose strength the Trojans are urged to shatter in Achilles' absence.

• The Heroides §1 the daughters of the Greeks

  The Greek (Danaan/Argive) women, to whom fallen Troy is hateful for the men it cost them.

• The Heroides §1 Achaean

  Greek; 'the Achaean camp' is the Greek encampment before Troy.

• The Heroides §1 The Argive leaders

  The Greek chieftains, now returning home from the sack of Troy.

• The Heroides §3 Achaean matrons

  The Greek (Achaean) married women; among them Achilles' future bride will be the loveliest.

• The Heroides §3 Greece

  The Greek host, here personified as 'mournful Greece' lying suppliant before Achilles.

• The Heroides §5 the Danaans

  The Greeks, who demand Helen back under arms.

• The Heroides §6 an Argive city

  A Greek city; Hypsipyle had feared Jason would take a Greek bride, not a barbarian one.

• The Heroides §6 the Argive women

  The Greek women Hypsipyle had thought her rivals, until a foreign sorceress supplanted her.

• The Heroides §8 Greek women

  Greek (Achaean) women; Hermione asks if a barbarian foe could treat them worse than Pyrrhus treats her.

• The Heroides §8 conquering Achaea

  Victorious Greece, whose treatment of captive Andromache was gentler than Hermione's present plight.

• The Heroides §8 the Argive hands

  The Greek host that took up arms to recover Helen.

• The Heroides §9 the Pelasgian cities

  The cities of Greece (Pelasgian = Greek), through which the shameful rumor of Hercules' enslavement spreads.

• The Heroides §12 the Greek throng

  The Argonauts, the Greek (Pelasgian) crew of the Argo.

• The Heroides §12 Pelasgian youths

  The Greek (Pelasgian) Argonauts whom Aeetes received as guests.

• The Heroides §12 the Greek youth

  The Argonauts whom Medea's magic saved — her true 'dowry,' she says.

• The Heroides §13 the Danaans

  The Greeks, to whom Helen's beauty (and the war it caused) brings harm.

• The Heroides §13 the Argive soldier

  The Greek army destined, if fate allows, to bring Troy down.

• The Heroides §13 ships of Inachus

  The Greek (Argive/Inachian) fleet, which Laodamia wishes would turn back.

• The Heroides §16 Achaia

  Greece (Achaia), which Helen will find poor beside Troy's wealth.

• The Heroides §16 Greece

  Great Greece, whose vengeance Paris dismisses as an empty fear.

• The Heroides §16 the Doric camps

  The Greek (Dorian) army, which Paris boasts would fall to him in war.

• The Heroides §17 Achaia

  Greece, whose reproaches Helen fears.

• The Heroides §17 Pelasgian fire

  Greek (Pelasgian) fire; the seers foretold Troy would burn by it.

• The Cure for Love §2 Greek hands

  The Greeks (Danai) of the Trojan War, here imagined as never sacking Troy had Paris been cured of love.