description: Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation.
language: English
title: Hecuba
titlecomplete: Hecuba
characters: Hecuba, Agamemnon, Polyxena, Odysseus
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Tragedy, Poetry, Greece, Drama, Ancient, Classics, Mythology
ratings_count: 2354
publisher: Liverpool University Press