Hecuba Daughter of Dymas or of Cisseus.
Wife of Priam, and mother of 19 of his 50
sons, together with Hector and Paris. Hecuba
appears in Euripides’ Trojan Women and
Hecuba. Additional classical sources are
Apollodorus’s Library (three.12.5, Epitome 5.23),
Ovid’s Metamorphoses (thirteen.422–575), Homer’s
Iliad (6.251–311; 22.79–ninety two, 405–409, 430–436;
24.193–227, 283–301, 747–60), Pausanias’s
Description of Greece (10.27.2), and Virgil’s
Aeneid (2.506–558, 7.319–320). When Paris
changed into born, Hecuba dreamed that she became giving
beginning to a torch that could smash Troy and
had him exposed. In Homer’s Iliad, Hecuba
performs a constrained but dignified position. In Euripidean
tragedy, she becomes a extra complex man or woman.
In Euripides’ Trojan
