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1. I was falsely accused of running away with my lover and causing a terrible war. In fact, I remained in Egypt all the time and it was only my image that caused all the disasters! What is my name?
2. I was married to a widowed king, who happened to have a son. The son was very attractive and very much in disfavour of the goddess Aphrodite. To punish him, she used me and awoke in me illicit passions, which led me, finally, to deadly accusations and shameful suicide. What is my name?
3. My fate was more than unhappy. Once I was a royal lady, but I've lost my husband Hector and my little boy in the war and became a slave of Neoptolemus, son of my husband's killer. I was an obedient slave and a good mother to the son that I had with my new master. Now, however, his childless wife wants to kill me and my little boy! What is my name?
4. I am, the Greeks say, a witch and a barbarian from the faraway land of Colchis. I am also a woman ready to burn and plot and kill them all (including my own children!) to have my revenge on the unfaithful husband! Who am I?
5. I was an innocent little girl once, sacrificed to Artemis by my father to guarantee the wind for the fleet. Now I am a cruel priestess in a dreadful temple in Tauris and my task is to sacrifice to the goddess all strangers who ever set their foot in our land. What is my name?
6. Once upon a time I was a proud queen, a mother and grandmother, famous for my wealth and happiness. Now I am an old, wretched woman, about to become a slave, a person who has seen the deaths of most of her family and the destruction of her city. I swear I'd rather become a dog than go on living like that! Who am I?
7. My father was murdered, my brother barely escaped a similar fate. My father's killer, who happens to be his wife and my own mother, rules now our land together with her lover, an instigator of that crime. Moreover, I, a princess, was given in marriage to a simple peasant! But my time will come and when it comes, I will not hesitate to take my revenge - even if it means to kill my own mother! What is my name?
8. I loved my husband. Actually, I loved him enough to die instead of him, when he asked for it. I went willingly to Hades, abandoning my husband and my children. Yet my sacrifice was rewarded: Greece's greatest hero fought Death on my behalf and brought me back to the land of the living. What is my name?
9. I actually did believe that it was a mountain lion I had killed with my bare hands... I believed it, until I saw that it was in fact my son's bloodied head on the thyrsos that I was carrying around... What is my name?
10. You probably know me much better from the tragedy of Sophocles, but I appear also in one of Euripides' dramas. I am the unhappy daughter of Jocasta and her son-husband Oedipus, a sister of brothers who had killed each other. Who am I?
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