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A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter E

Eetion

Mythology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

King of Cilician Thebe and father of Andromache, Hector's wife. Achilles killed him and his seven sons when sacking the city, deepening Andromache's tragic losses in war.

Detailed Definition
Eetion ruled a city sacked by Achilles during the Trojan War; his family’s tragedy prefigures Hector’s downfall. He embodies the collateral suffering of war. Poets reference Eetion to evoke the human cost of heroism, paternal loss, and the interconnectedness of Trojan fates in epic and lament poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Eetion, king of Thebe and father of Andromache, appears in Homer’s Iliad; Poets use Eetion to evoke Trojan nobility and loss; In Iliad 6, Achilles kills him—ideal for elegiac contrast to Hector’s family; “Eetion’s halls” symbolize sacked civilization; His burial under his own vines adds agrarian pathos.
Additional Notes
Eetion, king of Thebe (in Mysia, not Boeotia), is killed by Achilles, who later regrets it—showing Achilles’ capacity for remorse. His daughter Andromache becomes Hector’s wife, linking two Trojan War tragedies. Homer’s Iliad treats him with dignity, making Eetion a symbol of noble victimhood. Useful for studies of Achilles’ complexity or the human cost of war in epic.
Also Known As
Eëtion
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