Hecuba
mythological figure · 7 works · 17 mentions · 46 anchored passages
his fond mother · his mother · his wife · queen of misery · royal mistress · she · the speaker seeking aid · this man
in the texts
Iliad
Queen of Troy and Hektor's mother, who greets him at the palace and then organizes the women's offering of a robe to Athena at his instruction.
When Hektor got there, his fond mother came up to him with Laodike the fairest of her daughters.
And Hektor answered, "Honored mother, bring no wine, lest you unman me and I forget my strength.
Hecuba took out the largest robe, and the one that was most beautifully enriched with embroidery, as an offering to Athena:
Orations
Wife of Priam, queen of Troy, whose suffering culminates the traditional fall narrative.
and that Hecuba, the wretched mother of so many children, should be given to Odysseus for outrage, and, by the greatness of her evils, very ridiculously become a dog;
And indeed it is not so dreadful if men in the midst should take the voice of sheep or of cattle, nor if they neigh nor if they bark, as the poets say of Hecuba, that at last, after all the dreadful things, the Erinyes made her a fierce-eyed dog, and uttering bronze sounds from her grey jaws there harkened Ida and sea-girt Tenedos and the Thracian wind-loving fields.
So that, though the Indians are without sight of many of the stars among us — for they say the Bears do not appear with them — they are not unacquainted with the sufferings of Priam, and the laments and wailings of Andromache and Hecuba, and the valour of Achilles and Hector.
Tusculan Disputations
Grieving figure (implied to be Hecuba or a Trojan royal) who laments the loss of city and home in the quoted verses, appealing to Hector for aid.
Of citadel and city I am bereft.
and Hecuba they think to be feigned turned into a dog on account of a certain bitterness and rage of mind.
Hecuba
The aged former queen of Troy, now a captive slave; mother of Polydorus, Polyxena, Hector, Paris, and Cassandra among others. Central protagonist of the window, mourning her daughter's sacrifice and her son's murder.
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The Trojan Women
Former queen of Troy, now a captive slave, whose grief over her city, husband, children, and grandchild structures much of the window.
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Letters to Lucilius
Legendary queen of Troy who fell into slavery after Troy's fall
Do you not know at what age Hecuba began to serve, at what age Croesus, at what age the mother of Darius, at what age Plato, at what age Diogenes?
For me to ask which was the elder, Homer or Hesiod, no more belongs to the matter than to know, since Hecuba was younger than Helen, why she bore her age so badly.
On Fate
Mythological queen of Troy, mother of Paris, cited as an example of a non-efficient antecedent to the Trojan War's destruction.
nor was the fact that I went down to the Campus the cause of my playing at ball, nor was Hecuba the cause of the Trojans’ destruction because she bore Alexander, nor Tyndareus the cause to Agamemnon because he begot Clytaemnestra.