Hecuba Response Paper Euripides’ Hecuba is a classic Greek tragedy that portrays a mother’s grief over the death of her daughter and the revenge she takes for the murder of her son. Over the course of the play, The Trojan Queen Hecuba (the main character and mother) loses her last two children Polybus and Polyxena, cruelly murdered by the Greeks, and becomes a weeping ghostly shadow of her former self. The play takes place at the end of the Trojan War, which means that the Greeks are in a state
storytelling art, namely The Trojan Women, written by famous Greek tragedy
The play of Hecuba is set in the time soon after the end of the Trojan War. Hecuba used to be the Queen of Troy, but is now a slave. As a result of the war ending, Polyxena (Hecuba’s daughter) is taken as a sacrificial tribute and killed at the tomb of Achilles. This is done to create wind so the Greeks can part their ships. This is an event that is similar to the sacrifice of Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia, in order to create wind to sail to war in the play “Agamemnon.” Her son