The Trojan Women
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The Trojan Women 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 comm
An engraving of the death of Astyanax
Sacrifice of Polyxena by the Greeks on an Attic black-figure Tyrrhenian amphora
Neoptolemus killing Priam and Astyanax
Willow Hale (Hecuba) and Sterling Wolfe (Talthybius) in The Trojan Women, directed by Brad Mays at the ARK Theatre Company (2003)
Hecuba
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In Greek mythology, Hecuba was the wife of King Priam and queen of Troy during the Trojan War. With Priam, she was the mother of the warriors Hector and Troilus; Helen's suitor Paris; and the prophete
The Trojan Women
…Athena and Poseidon discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned the rape of Cassandra, the eldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba and priestess of Apollo, by Ajax the Lesser after dragging her from a statue of Athena. What follows shows how much the Trojan women have suffered as…
Hecuba depicted on a vase of the 6th century BC
The death of Hector on a Roman sarcophagus, c. 200 AD
Hecuba and Polyxena by Merry-Joseph Blondel
Hecuba Offering the Robe to Pallas by Antonio Canova