The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Hector was Priam's eldest son by Hecuba, and heir to the Trojan throne.

Hecuba ( also Hekábe, Hecabe, Hécube ; ) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children.

Hecuba is a main character in two plays by Euripides: The Trojan Women and Hecuba.

According to Euripides, however, in his plays The Trojan Women and Hecuba, Polyxena's famous death was caused at the end of the Trojan War.

Mentioned briefly in Euripides ' plays Trojan Women and Hecuba, simply stating that Andromache, wife of Hector, was his promised spear bride.

Hecuba has the other Trojan women kill Polymestor's sons, and blinds Polymestor by scratching his eyes out.

In Book VI of the Iliad, with Hecuba and the Trojan women, Theano offered a gift and plea to Athena for the life of the city, but was rebuffed.

* Hecabe, Latin Hecuba, a Trojan queen, wife of Priam and mother of Hector.

Hecuba in Euripides's The Trojan Women is certainly sublime when she expresses her endless sorrow for the terrible destiny of her children.

Talthybius appears in Euripides ’ Hecuba and The Trojan Women.

In Hecuba and The Trojan Women, Talthybius seems to always be the bearer of bad news.

In The Trojan Women, he tells Hecuba that all of the women are being divided up and given to different Greek Heroes as slaves.

Willow Hale ( Hecuba ) and Sterling Wolfe ( Talthybius ) in The Trojan Women, directed by Brad Mays at the ARK Theatre Company in Los Angeles, 2003

The Trojan Women, directed by Marti Maraden, was performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival at the Tom Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, from May 14 to October 5, 2008 with Canadian actress Martha Henry as Hecuba.

After the war, she played Hecuba in Euripides The Trojan Women ( 1919 – 20 ), then from 1920 – 22, Sybil and her husband starred in a British version of France's Grand Guignol directed by Jose Levy.

In Greek mythology, Troilus is a young Trojan prince, one of the sons of King Priam ( or sometimes Apollo ) and Hecuba.

Comparable to Lear, it shows the fight of the decayed Trojan queen, Hecuba, against the Athenian empire, succeeding only when she abandons the aristocracy and the interests of the state to physically meet the proletariat and join the people's cause.

* a middle period of disillusionment at the senselessness of war ( Hecuba, Women of Troy )

worked on the plays by Euripides, publishing in 1916 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis, in 1919 a translation of choruses from Iphigeneia at Aulis and Hippolytus, an adaptation of Hippolytus called Hippolytus Temporizes ( 1927 ), a translation of choruses from The Bacchae and Hecuba ( 1931 ), and Euripides ' Ion ( 1937 ) a loose translation of Ion.

A third edition of the Hecuba appeared in 1808, and he left corrected copies of the other plays, of which new editions appeared soon after his death ; but these four plays were all that was finished of the projected edition of the poet.

One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

" Thus in the example above, Hecuba presents herself as a sophisticated intellectual describing a rationalized cosmos yet the speech is ill-matched to her audience, Menelaus ( a type of the unsophisticated listener ), and soon it is found not to suit the cosmos either ( her infant grandson is brutally murdered by the victorious Greeks ).

* Eunoe, possible mother of Hecuba by Dymas

A divinatory dream by Hecuba that the Judgement of Paris would lead to the destruction of Troy

* Euripides, Andromache, in Euripides: Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, with an English translation by David Kovacs.

* Euripides, Hecuba, in The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O ' Neill, Jr. in two volumes.

Hecuba, translated by E. P. Coleridge.

Though Paris was indeed born before nightfall, he was spared by Priam ; Hecuba, too, was unable to kill the child, despite the urging of the priestess of Apollo, one Herophile.

Some versions from non-extant works are summarized by a scholiast on Euripides ' Hecuba: according to those, she was a daughter of Dymas or Sangarius by the Naiad Euagora, or by Glaucippe the daughter of Xanthus ( Scamander?

Hecuba learns of this, and when Polymestor comes to the fallen city, Hecuba, by trickery, blinds him and kills his two sons.

* Harold Hecuba, a character in the Gilligan's Island episode " The Producer " ( played by Phil Silvers )

Paris, son of the king Priam and the queen Hecuba, fell in love with Oenone when he was a shepherd on the slopes of Mount Ida, having been exposed in infancy ( owing to a prophecy that he would be the means of the destruction of the city of Troy ) but rescued by the herdsman Agelaus.

Hecuba baits Polymestor by drawing him in with treasure.

Polymestor is given a trial against Hecuba by Agamemnon.

Hecuba refutes this claim by stating that Greece has no interest in allying with barbarians.

He had been entrusted by Priam and Hecuba to the care of his older sister and her husband.

* Euripides ' play Hecuba is performed.

A scholium on a line in Euripides, Hecuba 886, reverses these origins, placing the twin brothers at first in Argolis, whence Aegyptus was expelled and fled to the land that was named after him.

According to Homer, Hecuba was the daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia, but Euripides and Virgil write of her as the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus.

* Euripides, " Hecuba "

Euripides, in his play Hekabe ( also known as Hecuba ), has a moving scene ( ll 566 – 575 ) which shows Neoptolemus as a compassionate young man who kills Polyxena, Hekabe's daughter with ambivalent feelings and in the least painful way.

Polymestor appears in Euripides ' play, Hecuba and in the Ovidian myth " Hecuba, Polyxena and Polydorus "

* 1987: Hecuba ( Euripides )

Soon after this, in 1797, appeared the first instalment of what was intended to be a complete edition of Euripides – an edition of the Hecuba.

Between December 2004 and April 2005, they presented Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear and a brand new production of Euripides ' Hecuba starring Vanessa Redgrave.

* The RSC's Hecuba ( 7 April – 7 May 2005 ) by Tony Harrison, adapted from Euripides, starring Vanessa Redgrave

Taking place near the same time is Hecuba, another play by Euripides.