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Hecuba (/ ˈ h ɛ k j ʊ b ə /; also Hecabe; Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη, romanized: Hekábē, pronounced) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War. [ 1 ] Description
Hecuba rages inconsolably against the brutality of such an action, and resolves to take revenge. Agamemnon enters, and Hecuba, tentatively at first and then boldly requests that Agamemnon help her avenge her son's murder. Hecuba's daughter Cassandra is a concubine of Agamemnon so the two have some relationship to protect and Agamemnon listens.
Hecuba is another character which ancient audiences would clearly recognize from the tragic stage. Hecabe is the star of two different tragedies by Euripides, the Trojan Women and the Hecuba itself. The Trojan Women features Hecuba and a variety of other women of Troy lamenting their losses after the city is taken and sacked. The women discuss ...
From an edition of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel.. In medieval and ancient philosophy, the Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortunae is a symbol of the capricious nature of Fate.
In Greek mythology, Deiphobus / d iː ˈ ɪ f ə b ə s / (Ancient Greek: Δηΐφοβος, romanized: Dēḯphobos) was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris. Deiphobus killed four men of fame in the Trojan War. [1]
Hecuba (band), from California; 108 Hecuba, an asteroid; Hecuba, a peak in the Nilgiri mountains; USS Hecuba, a ship; Hecuba (statue), statue on the University of Southern California's campus; Hecuba, in the 2009 movie Drag Me to Hell, was a cat belonging to character Clay Dalton's parents, Leonard and Trudy.
Hecuba is a 1726 tragedy by the British writer Richard West. [2] It is named after Hecuba, a figure in Greek Mythology from the time of the Trojan War.. The original Drury Lane cast included Mary Porter as Hecuba, Barton Booth as Polymnestor, John Mills as Agamemnon, Roger Bridgewater as Ulysses, John Roberts as Talythibius, William Mills as Aegon, John Thurmond as Maelaines, Jane Cibber as ...
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