Hecuba
Greek · mortal · trojan war · mortal
Mortal — daughter of the Phrygian Dymas (or of Cisseus), chief wife of Priam and queen of Troy; the great tragic mother of Greek myth. Bore Priam most of his principal children — Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Cassandra, Creusa, Polyxena, Troilus, Polydorus, Laodice. Her firebrand-dream foretold Troy's ruin through Paris. Enslaved at the city's fall, she avenged Polydorus by blinding Polymestor, and was finally transformed into a dog at Cynossema (Euripides; Ovid).
Children
Domains
- queenship
- maternal grief
Powers
- Exact blinding vengeance on the murderer of her child
- Transform at death into a fiery-eyed hound
Relations
- spouse: Priam
- mother of: Hector
- mother of: Paris
- mother of: Cassandra
- mother of: Helenus
- mother of: Deiphobus
- mother of: Creusa
- mother of: Polyxena
- mother of: Troilus