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.

Cassandra, was daughter of Hecuba and Priam, and Troilus ' half-sister.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra ( Greek, also, also known as Alexandra ) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba and the twin sister of Helenus.

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.

As the first-born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, a descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy, he was a prince of the royal house and the heir apparent to his father's throne.

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

Other children of Priam and Hecuba include the prophetic Helenus and Cassandra ; eldest daughter Ilione ; Deiphobus ; Troilus ; Polites ; Creusa, wife of Aeneas ; Laodice, wife of Helicaon ; Polyxena, who was slaughtered on the grave of Achilles ; and Polydorus, his youngest son.

Neoptolemus got Andromache, wife of Hector, and Odysseus was given Hecuba, Priam's wife.

Paris was a child of Priam and Hecuba ( see List of King Priam's children ).

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.

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.

Creusa, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, was the first wife of Aeneas and mother to Ascanius ( also known as Iulus ).

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.

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.

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?

In Greek mythology, Polyxena (; Greek: ) was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, 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.

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.

In Greek mythology, Helenus ( Ἕλενος ) was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra.

The first Dymas was a Phrygian king and father of Hecuba ( also called Hecabe ), wife to King Priam of Troy.

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

In Greek mythology, Theona was a daughter of Dymas, a sister of Hecuba and wife of Amycus.

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

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

In Greek mythology, Ilione was the oldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

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.

However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned Ajax the Lesser for dragging Cassandra, the eldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, away from Apollo's temple.

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

Priam later divorced her in favor of Hecuba ( or Hecebe ), daughter of the Phrygian king Dymas.

During the sacking and looting of the great city, the seeress Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, clung to the statue of Athena, but the Lesser Ajax raped her.

* Antiphus, one of the 50 sons of Priam, and son of Hecuba.

In Greek mythology, Deiphobus ( Δηίφοβος ) was a son of Priam and Hecuba.

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

* Polites was the son of Priam and Hecuba, and was known for his swiftness.

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

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

Hecuba also takes place just after the fall of Troy.

Hecuba in particular lets it be known that Troy had been her home for her entire life, only to see herself as an old grandmother watching the burning of Troy, the death of her husband, her children, and her grandchildren before she will be taken as a slave to Odysseus.

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

Hecuba was a queen of Troy in Greek mythology

Molossus inherited the kingdom of Epirus after the death of Helenus, son of Priam and Hecuba of Troy, who had married his erstwhile sister-in-law Andromache after Neoptolemus ' death.

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.