Eventually, even the old women and the men join in the music and together call on Apollo, or Paon, the god of the harp. The streets are strewn with the finest incense, an offering to the gods. They leave the King’s palace and go forth to the city of Troy to greet Hektor, celebrating with a symphony of music ornamented by the voices of singing girls. The young men tie their chariots to horses and drive them with “great style,” and the whole crowd appears glamorous and exultant. The men of Troy prepare carts for the crowds of women to ride, although his own daughters go separately. Upon hearing the story, Hektor’s father, King Priam, gets the city ready to celebrate his son’s arrival. Along with her, the men take a wealth of gifts from her father: jewelry, clothing, toys and cups made of precious materials. Idaios describes how Hektor and his army take Andromache from Thebes, away from the river Plakia, and bring her to Troy over the sea. From there it moves to Troy, where Idaios, the swift Trojan messenger, arrives to tell a story whose fame stretches through Asia. “Fragment 44” narrates a moment from the story of the Trojan war that Homer left out of the Iliad-Prince Hektor’s return home to Troy with his bride, Andromache.
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