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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).
According to Homer, Hecuba was the daughter of King Dymas of Phrygia, [5] but Euripides [6] and Virgil [7] write of her as the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus. The mythographers Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus leave open the question which of the two was her father, with Pseudo-Apollodorus adding a third alternative option: Hecuba's ...
Hecuba refutes this claim by stating that the Greeks have no interest in allying with barbarians. Agamemnon sides with Hecuba and declares Polymestor's actions to be murder. Agamemnon has his soldiers seize Polymestor. As he is being taken away, Polymestor prophesies the deaths of Cassandra, the daughter of Hecuba, and Agamemnon.
Her work on Euripides' Hecuba has been praised for its "integrity" and "balance", [7] and described as "stimulating and thought-provoking." [8] She is a passionate advocate for the arts. [2] In November 2019, Mossman delivered the Nineteenth Dorothy Buchan Memorial Lecture in Ancient History at the University of Leicester.
Ecuba acceca Polimestore (Hecuba blinds Polymestor), painted by Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium). Polydorus or Polydoros (/ ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ d ɔːr ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος, i.e. "many-gift[ed]") is the youngest son of Priam in the mythology of the Trojan War.
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Talthybius appears in Euripides’ Hecuba and The Trojan Women. In addition, he has a small role in The Iliad. In Book IV, Agamemnon orders Talthybius to fetch the medic Machaon after Menelaus is wounded with an arrow shot by Pandarus. [1] In Hecuba and The Trojan Women, Talthybius seems to always be
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