Iliad 6.450–463, adapted from Sourcebook And just hearing it will give you a new sorrow 463 as the widow of this kind of man, the kind that is able to prevent those days of slavery. ” 462 That is what someone some day will say. He used to be the best in battle 461 -the best of all the Trojans, those horse-tamers, back in those days when they fought to defend Ilion. 459 And someone some day will look at you as you pour out your tears and will say: “Hector is the man whose wife this woman used to be. 458 Again and again you will be forced to do things against your will, and the bondage holding you down will be harsh.
But the pain I have on my mind is not as great for the Trojans and for what will happen to them in the future, 451 or for Hecuba or for Priam the king, 452 or for my brothers if, many in number and noble as they are, 453 they will fall in the dust at the hands of men who are their enemies 454 -no, as it is for you when I think of a moment when some Achaean man, one of those men who wear khitons of bronze, takes hold of you as you weep and leads you away as his prize, depriving you of your days of freedom 456 And you would be going to Argos, where you would be weaving at the loom of some other woman 457 -and you would be carrying water for her, drawing from the spring called Messēís or the one called Hypereia.
Some were captured in war, as foreseen by Hector when he says to Andromache: We were interested in understanding what those words would have meant and how servitude was portrayed, in the context of ancient Greek song culture of the Iliad and Odyssey. We start our exploration with female slaves/servants.
In Homeric poetry, apart from family members there are other members of the household who are described by many different Greek words, and carry out differing roles.
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