Euripides, Hecuba
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Abbreviation
Euripides, Hecuba

Euripides, Hecuba

First edition
Title of first edition
Ευριπίδη, Εκάβη
Source
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The tragedy Hecuba, written c. 424 BC, takes place after the victory of the Greeks in Troy and the sack of the legendary city which guarded the entrance to the Dardanelles / Hellespont. The central figure is Queen Hecuba, wife of King Priam, the tragic mother who lost her children, husband and kingdom and became slave of the leaders of the victorious army. After her grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena, she takes revenge for the murder of her youngest son Polydorus.

Hecuba of c. 424 BC and The Trojan Women of 415 BC are two deeply antiwar tragedies of Euripides, both written during the Peloponnesian War; but nobody listened to the poets.

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Key words
Achilles, Homeric hero.
Agamemnon.
Ancient Greek sources.
Captives, captivity.
Classical period.
Dardanelles / Hellespont.
Euripides.
Greek mythology.
Hecuba, mythology.
Peloponnesian War.
Theater, ancient.
Thracian peninsula / Gallipoli peninsula.
Trojan heroes.
Trojan War.
Troy.
Women.