person
Hecuba
Queen of Troy, wife of Priam and mother of Hector, Paris, Cassandra, Polyxena and many more; the surviving center of the play, who watches every loss converge on her and is allotted at the end to Ulysses.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §660 Hecuba
Queen of Troy, wife of Priam, mother of Hector and Cassandra; her sorrows end in her madness as a barking dog.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.47.12 Hecuba
Queen of Troy, wife of Priam; enslaved in old age after the fall of the city — Seneca's first example that no station is secure against fortune's reversal into slavery.
- The Trojan Women §28 Hecuba
Queen of Troy, wife of Priam, the surviving center of the play on whom every loss converges; the speaker of the prologue.