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, for example, Odysseus is represented in Hecuba ( lines 131-32 ) as " agile-minded, sweet-talking, demos-pleasing " i. e. a type of the war-time demagogues that were active in Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

" 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 ).

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.

* Euripides ' play Hecuba is performed.

: This page is about the mythological figure ; for other uses, see Hecuba ( disambiguation )

Polydorus, the youngest son of Priam and Hecuba, is sent to King Polymestor for safekeeping, but when Troy falls, Polymestor murders Polydorus.

Hecuba is frequently referenced in classical literature, and in many medieval, Renaissance, and modern works.

Hecuba is mentioned in:

Polymestor is given a trial against Hecuba by Agamemnon.

As he is being taken away, Polymestor reveals the deaths of Hecuba and Agamemnon.

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

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

Hecuba will be taken away with the Greek general Odysseus, and Cassandra is destined to become the conquering general Agamemnon's concubine.

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

In Western European medieval and Renaissance versions of the legend, Troilus is the youngest of Priam's five legitimate sons by Hecuba.

Troilus is an adolescent boy or ephebe, the son of Hecuba, queen of Troy.

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

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

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

In Hector, the first two acts have Andromache, Priam and Hecuba trying to convince Hector to avoid fighting ; act three has Hector rushing to the battle without a word to aid his faltering troops ; act four has the residents of Troy believe that Hector has won the battle ; the final act relates Hector's death and the play ends in lamentation.

* Hecuba and The Trojan Women, plays by Euripides

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.

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.

* Eunoe, possible mother of Hecuba by Dymas

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

Talthybius appears in Euripides ’ Hecuba and The Trojan Women.

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.