Hecuba’s Family Tree

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Family

• Priam(spouse),Cassandra(child),Deiphobus(child),Hector(child),Helenus(child),Paris(child)— Marriage

  Priam and Hecuba, king and queen of Troy, bore Hector, Paris, Cassandra, Deiphobus, and Helenus. Hecuba dreamed Paris would destroy Troy, but Priam welcomed him back.

Enemy of

• Achilles

  Achilles killed Hecuba's greatest son Hector and dragged his body around Troy. After his own death, his ghost demanded the sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter Polyxena on his tomb.

Associated with

• Astyanax

  Hecuba was Astyanax's grandmother. She witnessed the destruction of her family, including her grandson's murder, during the sack of Troy.

• Helen of Troy

  Hecuba, queen of Troy, received Helen into the royal household and bore the consequences of Paris's theft — the war that killed most of her sons and reduced Troy to ashes.

• Odysseus

  After Troy's fall, Hecuba was given as a slave to Odysseus. In Euripides' Hecuba, she persuades Agamemnon to allow her revenge on Polymestor while under Odysseus's authority.

• Trojan War

  Hecuba endured the Trojan War as queen of Troy, witnessing the death of her sons and the destruction of her city. Her story became the archetype of war's devastation upon the vanquished.