Polyxena relates her happiness to her horse
While the vast majority of H. Allenger’s Polyxena portrays the principle character in her sad minutes after the fall of Troy, our princess likewise had snapshots of satisfaction, which are uncovered in her organization with Zephyrus.
Zephyrus – named for the West Wind-was the pony given to Polyxena by Antiope, the administrator of the Amazonians. She rode him all through her visit with the Amazons and on her way back to Troy and regularly relates her bliss to it.
Take this case, for instance: I was on Zephyrus – what a pony! He so handily reacted to my orders that I might have driven him without expressing a solitary word, just by little movements of my hand or body.
What’s more, here’s another second showing her cheerful mind-set: I was never more glad to see Zephyrus than when Antiope carried him to me, and I felt sure beyond a shadow of a doubt the steed respected me similarly, for he genuinely reacted brilliantly to my control of his reins, its commonality being gotten with most extreme satisfaction.
The story happens in the last a very long time of the Trojan War. The courageous woman is called upon by her dad to make an appeal to the Amazons to join the Trojans in their fight against the Greeks. Being the lone imperial princess, Polyxena should now relinquish her job to take on a more pressing errand of assisting with saving her city.
