Hecuba and odysseus

Euripides' Hekabe presents a spectacle of suffering, rage, and revenge that offers compelling witness to the courage and solidarity of those who suffer the most from violence. Meagher's brilliant translation is accessible yet does not diminsh the powerful impact of this extraordinary and timeless play.

This ancient Greek tragedy presents a spectacle of the torment, rage, and revenge endured and enacted by women who, Euripides realized, suffer first and most from war. In Hekabe, the fate of the bereaved queen of Troy is a testament to the dehumanizing rather than ennobling effects of intense and prolonged suffering.

As long as we live in a world all but defined by violence, the ancient voice of Euripides Hekabe will offer compelling witness to the courage and solidarity of those who suffer it most and a fierce challenge to the simplistic assurance that suffering is somehow for the better of us all.

Special Features

• A lively and extremely actable English translation that is true to the word and spirit of the ancient original
  
• An illuminating, attractive and afforda
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  Hecuba

  Spouse of king Priam in Greek mythology

  This article is about the mythological figure. For other uses, see Hecuba (disambiguation).

  Hecuba
  Hecuba depicted on a vase of the 6th century BC
  Other names	Hecabe, Dymantis
  Abode	Phrygia or Thrace, later Troy
  Parents	(1) Dymas and Euagora or Glaucippe or Eunoë (2) Cisseus and Telecleia (3) Sangarius and Metope or Euagora or Glaucippe
  Siblings	(2) Theano
  Consort	(i) Apollo (ii) Priam
  Offspring	(i) & (ii) Troilus and Hector (ii) Paris, Cassandra, Helenus, Deiphobus, Laodice, Polyxena, Creusa, Polydorus, Polites, Antiphus, Pammon, Hipponous and Iliona

  Hecuba (; also Hecabe; Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη, romanized: Hekábē, pronounced[hekábɛ:]) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War.^[1]

  Description

  Hecuba was described by the chronicler Malalas in his account of the Chronography as "dark, good eyes, full grown, long nose, beautiful, generous, talkative, calm".^[2] Meanwhile, in the account of Dares the P

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  Hecuba (play)

  Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

  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). The central figure is Hecuba, wife of King Priam, formerly queen of the now-fallen city. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena and the revenge she takes for the murder of her youngest son, Polydorus.

  Plot

  In the play's opening, the ghost of Polydorus tells how when the war threatened Troy, he was sent to King Polymestor of Thrace for safekeeping, with gifts of gold and jewelry. But when Troy lost the war, Polymestor treacherously murdered Polydorus, and seized the treasure. Polydorus has foreknowledge of many of the play's events and haunted his mother's dreams the night before.

  The events take place on the coast of Thrace, as the Greek navy returns home from Troy. The Trojan queen Hecuba, now enslaved by the Greeks, mourns her great losses and w