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Neoptolemus holds Polyxena, while Hecuba ask him to release her daughter, her son Polites is dead (still with tears coming from his eyes). Pio Fedi, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy [Source]
Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. The play is meant to take place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the loss of a daughter, and the revenge she takes over the loss of a son. Taking place near the same time is The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides. This play has also been mentioned in the second act of Hamlet by Shakespeare.
Hecuba Blinding Polymestor, Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Chorus
- Captive Trojan Women
Characters
- Ghost of Polydorus
- Hecuba
- Polyxena
- Odysseus
- Talthybius
- Maid
- Agamemnon
- Polymestor, and his children
Setting
- Greek camp upon the shore of the Thracian Chersonese
Translations
- Edward P. Coleridge, 1891 - prose: full text
- Arthur S. Way, 1912 - verse
- J. T. Sheppard, 1927 - verse
- Hugh O. Meredith, 1937 - verse
- William Arrowsmith, 1958 - verse
- Philip Vellacott, 1963 - verse
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Plays by Euripides
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Cyclops | Alcestis | Medea | Heracleidae | Hippolytus | Andromache | Hecuba | The Suppliants | Electra | Heracles | The Trojan Women | Iphigeneia in Tauris | Ion | Helen | Phoenician Women | Orestes | Bacchae | Iphigeneia at Aulis | Rhesus (spurious)
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