Hecuba (play)

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Hecuba
Hecuba Blinding Polymestor by Giuseppe Crespi
Written by	Euripides
Chorus	Captive Trojan Women
Characters	Ghost of Polydorus Hecuba Polyxena Odysseus Talthybius Maid Agamemnon Polymestor, and his children
Place premiered	Athens
Original language	Ancient Greek
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Greek camp upon the shore of the Thracian Chersonese

Hecuba (Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη, Hekabē) is a tragedy by Euripides, written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War but before the Greeks have departed Troy (roughly the same time as The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides). The central figure is Hecuba, wife of King Priam, formerly queen of the now-fallen city. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena and the revenge she takes for the murder of her youngest son, Polydorus.