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Hecuba

Proper noun

Meaning

Hecuba

(Greek mythology) the wife of King Priam of Troy, the mother of Hector, Paris and the Cassandra

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Examples

Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam (Priamos) and Queen Hecuba (Hekabe) and the fraternal twin sister of Helenus and a princess of Troy. Source: Internet

When poet, translator and director Tony Harrison accepted the Royal Shakespeare Company’s commission to translate Euripides’ 2,500-year-old tragedy, "Hecuba," it was primarily because Vanessa Redgrave was going to play the title role. Source: Internet

Short, p. 82 Also in 1911 he wrote Hecuba's Lament, a setting of Gilbert Murray 's translation from Euripides built on a seven-beat refrain designed, says Dickinson, to represent Hecuba 's defiance of divine wrath. Source: Internet

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