Hecuba (play)
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| Hecuba | |
 Hecuba Blinding Polymnestor by Giuseppe Maria Crespi |
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| Written by | Euripides |
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| Chorus | Captive Trojan Women |
| Characters | Ghost of Polydorus Hecuba Polyxena Odysseus Talthybius Maid Agamemnon Polymestor, and his children |
| Setting | Greek camp upon the shore of the Thracian Chersonese |
Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. The play is meant to take place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the loss of a daughter, and the revenge she takes over the loss of a son. Taking place near the same time is The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides. This play has also been mentioned in the second act of Hamlet by Shakespeare.
[edit] Translations
- Edward P. Coleridge, 1891 - prose: full text
- Arthur S. Way, 1912 - verse
- J. T. Sheppard, 1927 - verse
- Hugh O. Meredith, 1937 - verse
- William Arrowsmith, 1958 - verse
- Philip Vellacott, 1963 - verse
- Timberlake Wertenbaker, 1995 - verse
- George Theodoridis, 2007 - full text prose: [1]
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Plays by Euripides
Cyclops | Alcestis | Medea | Heracleidae | Hippolytus | Andromache | Hecuba | The Suppliants | Electra | Heracles | The Trojan Women | Iphigeneia in Tauris | Ion | Helen | Phoenician Women | Orestes | Bacchae | Iphigeneia at Aulis | Rhesus (spurious)
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