Hecuba
Greek · mortal · trojan war · Recorded classification
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: PriamHom. Il. 22.79-89; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
- mother of: HectorHom. Il. 6.293-296, 22.79-89, 24.747-760; Apollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
- mother of: ParisWires to the existing figure greek_paris — parentage/reciprocal update needed.Apollod. 3.12.5; Eur. Tro. 919-922 (primary)
- mother of: CassandraApollod. 3.12.5; Eur. Tro. 41-44 (primary)
- mother of: HelenusApollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
- mother of: DeiphobusApollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
- mother of: Creusa of TroyApollod. 3.12.5 (primary)
- mother of: PolyxenaEur. Hec. 40-44; Apollod. Epit. 5.23 (primary)
- mother of: TroilusApollod. 3.12.5 (primary)