Hecuba

American  

[hek-yoo-buh] / ˈhɛk yʊ bə /

noun

1. Classical Mythology. the wife of Priam.

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Hecuba British  

/ ˈhɛkjʊbə /

noun

1. classical myth the wife of King Priam of Troy, and mother of Hector and Paris

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Example Sentences

Euripides, whom Aristotle called “the most tragic of the poets,” returns to the figure of the grief-stricken parent in “Hecuba,” “Hippolytus” and “The Bacchae,” to cite just a few disparate examples of characters brought to their knees by the death of their child.

From Los Angeles Times

The title alludes to “Cortege of Eagles,” a 1967 Graham work that focused on the disfiguring grief of Hecuba and the Trojan women after the defeat of Troy.

From New York Times

In one room I gathered with a group of people in a circle — Agamemnon and his soldiers encounter the Trojan women, Hecuba in front, moving in an elegant choreography of sweeping arm motions and rhythmic swaying.

From New York Times

Periodically Hecuba violently drums on her chest — a classical gesture of mourning.

From New York Times

At best, I felt like a war tourist, searching for where the juiciest action would happen, and at worst I felt complicit, tagging along with the actors portraying the Greeks, who drive the conflict — and the story forward — rather than the ones playing the Trojans, like Hecuba and her daughters, who are the unfortunate victims.

From New York Times