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Hecuba (Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη, Hekabē) is a tragedy by Euripides, written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War but before the Greeks have departed Troy (roughly the same time as The Trojan Women , another play by Euripides).
Hecuba is a 1726 tragedy by the British writer Richard West. 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 ...
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
Agamemnon complied, motivated by his love of Cassandra, another of Hecuba's children. 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. Polymestor is humiliated at having been blinded and made childless at the hands of slave women.
The Trojan Women (Ancient Greek: Τρῳάδες, romanized: Trōiades, lit."The Female Trojans") is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE.Also translated as The Women of Troy, or as its transliterated Greek title Troades, The Trojan Women presents commentary on the costs of war through the lens of women and children. [1]
Agamemnon (Thomson play) Aithiopes; Ajax (play) Akrisios; Alcestis (play) Alcmaeon in Corinth; Alcmaeon in Psophis; Amphitryon (Dryden play) Amphitryon (Molière play) Amphitryon (Plautus play) Amphitryon 38; Andromache (play) Andromeda (play) Antigone (Euripides play) Antigone (Sophocles play) Archelaus (play)
Cassandra was one of the many children born to the king and queen of Troy, Priam and Hecuba. She is the fraternal twin sister of Helenus , as well as the sister to Hector and Paris . [ 12 ] One of the oldest and most common versions of her myth states that Cassandra was admired for her beauty and intelligence by the god Apollo, who sought to ...
Adventure Story (play) Ajax (play) Alcestis (play) Alcibiades (play) Alcmaeon in Corinth; Alexandre le Grand; Amphitryon (Plautus play) Andromache (play) Andromaque; Andromeda (play) Andromède; Antigone (Anouilh play) Antigone (Euripides play) Antigone (Sophocles play) Antiochus (play) Asinaria; Aspis (Menander) Assemblywomen; The Athenian ...