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| hecuba: Hecuba Euripides, 2000 This is the final in a series of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays. In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battle-ground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in the Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. And in her name play Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war. |
| hecuba: Hecuba Euripides, 1991 A translation of Euripides' play, Hecuba, in which Hecuba grieves over the loss of a daughter and takes revenge for her fallen son. |
| hecuba: Hecuba Marina Carr, 2017-03-16 Troy has fallen. It’s the end of war and the beginning of something else. Something worse. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognize. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded…In a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winners and those they have defeated? |
| hecuba: Euripides, Hecuba Euripides, Justina Gregory, 1999 This student's edition of Hecuba prepared by Justina Gregory offers the first modern, full-length commentary suitable for classroom use. It includes an introduction, appendix on lyric meters, bibliography, and index. |
| hecuba: Hecuba Euripides, 1749 |
| hecuba: Euripides: Hecuba Luigi Battezzato, 2018-01-11 Hecuba was the most widely read play of Euripides from antiquity to the Renaissance, appealing to readers and spectators for its controversial treatment of moral themes: revenge, war and slavery, violence, human sacrifice, gender and ethnic relations. It narrates the death of Hecuba's daughter Polyxena, sacrificed by the Greeks to placate the ghost of Achilles, and that of her son Polydorus, killed out of greed by the Thracian king who was supposed to protect him. Hecuba successfully plots a cruel and shocking revenge against the killer. The play is now at the centre of the attention of scholars and performing artists. This edition offers new textual and interpretive suggestions, and provides detailed guidance on problems of language as well as employing conceptual tools from contemporary linguistics. It will be useful for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, as well as of interest to scholars. |
| hecuba: Euripides: Hecuba Helene P. Foley, 2014-12-18 Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses. |
| hecuba: Euripides: Hecuba Euripides, 2018-01-11 A new interpretation of a Greek tragedy on the fall of Troy: do violence, war and slavery make people less human? |
| hecuba: Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women Euripides, 2012-03-15 Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for the first time. |
| hecuba: The Hecuba Euripides, 1901 |
| hecuba: What's Hecuba to Him? Eva M. Dadlez, 1997-01-01 Fiction transports us. We inhabit new worlds in our imagination, adopt perspectives not our own, and even respond emotionally to persons and events that we know are not real. The very nature of our emotional engagement with fiction, says E. M. Dadlez, attests to the possibility of its moral significance, just as the nature of our imaginative engagement makes us collaborators in the creation of the worlds we imagine. This book engages contemporary debate over the seeming irrationality or inauthenticity of our emotional response to fiction, examining the many positions taken in this debate and arguing that we can understand the relation between cognition and emotion without devaluing our emotional responses to fiction. It takes Hamlet's famous query as the first step in an analytic philosophical inquiry and, by considering some of the answers that derive from that question, arrives at a set of necessary conditions for an emotional response to fiction. What Hamlet's player feels for Hecuba, proposes Dadlez, is no more illusory than what we feel for Hamlet; that the actor weeps for Hecuba reflects both our capacity to envision and understand a seemingly limitless variety of human situations&—to empathize with others&—and the capacity of fiction to facilitate such understanding. What's Hecuba to Him? is an enticingly written work that opens an entire philosophical arena to literary scholars and illuminates the significance that literature has for our moral life. |
| hecuba: The Plays of Euripides in English ...: Introduction. The cyclops. Hecuba. The Trojan dames. Helen. Electra. Orestes. Andromache. Iphigenia in Aulis. Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides, 1906 |
| hecuba: GEūripídou Ĕkáby. The Hecuba of Euripides, with tr., notes, and descriptive index of proper names, by the editors of the Analytical series of Greek and Latin classics Euripides, 1886 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba of Euripides Euripides, 1894 |
| hecuba: Hecuba. Orestes. Phoenician damsels. Medea. Hippolytus. Alcestis. Andromache Euripides, 1809 |
| hecuba: Hecuba; in English Verse; Translated ... by Henry O'Donnell Euripides, 1867 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba. Rugby ed., by A Sidgwick Euripides, 1875 |
| hecuba: Scenes from Euripides. Rugby edition. By A. Sidgwick ... The Hecuba Euripides, 1875 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba and Medea of Euripides Euripides, 1871 |
| hecuba: Euripidou Hekabē. The Hecuba of Euripides, literally tr., with the orig. Gr., the metres, the order, and Engl. accentuation, to which are subjoined numerous explanatory notes by T.W.C. Edwards Euripides, 1822 |
| hecuba: Εὐριπιδου Ἑκαβη. The Hecuba of Euripides, literally translated into English prose, from the text of Porson: with the original Greek, the metres, the order, and English accentuation. To which are subjoined ... notes. ... By T. W. C. Edwards Euripides, 1822 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba and Medea of Euripides, with Engl. notes by W.B. Smith Euripides, 1862 |
| hecuba: Hecuba Euripides, 2013-03-13 Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy (roughly the same time as The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides). The central figure is Hecuba, wife of King Priam, formerly Queen of the now-fallen city. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena, and the revenge she takes for the murder of her youngest son Polydorus. |
| hecuba: Hecuba and Other Plays Euripides, 1888 |
| hecuba: On Von Zeipel's Theory of the Perturbations of the Hecuba Group of Minor Planets Anna Estelle Glancy, 1922 |
| hecuba: He and Hecuba Betsey Riddle Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg, 1905 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba. With brief notes for young students Euripides, F. A. Paley, 1876 |
| hecuba: The Plays of Euripides: Andromache. Electra. The Bacchantes. Hecuba. Heracles mad. The Phoenician maidens. Orestes. Iphigenia among the Tauri. Iphigenia at Aulis. The Cyclops Euripides, 1891 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba of Euripides. With Brief Notes for Young Students. By F. A. Paley Euripides, 1876 |
| hecuba: The Tragedies of Euripides: Hecuba ; Orestes ; Phoenissae ; Medusa ; Hippolytus ; Alcestis ; Bacchae ; Heraclidae ; Iphigenia in Aulide ; Iphigenia in Tauris Euripides, 1877 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba of Euripides, a revised text with notes an an intr. by J. Bond and A.S. Walpole Euripides, 1882 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba of Euripides. The Text Closely Rendered, and the Most Difficult Words Parsed and Explained. By a First-Class Man of Balliol College, Oxford Euripides, 1875 |
| hecuba: The Tragedies of Euripides: Hecuba, Orestes, Phoenissae, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Bacchae, Heraclidae, Iphigenia in Aulide, and Iphigenia in Tauris.-v.2. Hercules furens, Toades, Ion, Andromache, Suppliants, Helen, Electra, Cyclops, Rhesus Euripides, 1879 |
| hecuba: Daughters of Hecuba Clara Viebig, 1922 |
| hecuba: Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis Euripides, 1920 |
| hecuba: The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician Virgins, and Medea of Euripides, Literally Translated Into English Prose, from the Text of Porson. Fifth Edition, Revised and Corrected Euripides, 1837 |
| hecuba: Euripides: Hecuba Helene P. Foley, 2014-12-18 Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses. |
| hecuba: The Hecuba of Euripides, literally tr. by R. Mongan Euripides, 1865 |
| hecuba: Hecuba Euripides, A first-class-man of Balliol, 1869 |
| hecuba: Hecuba Euripides, E. P. Coleridge, 2012-01-01 Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the dramatic competitions of the Athenian City Dionysia in 441 b.c.e. He would be awarded this honor three more times in his life, and once more posthumously. His works are characterized by their moral ambiguity, plots of intrigue, and often a separate character (usually a deity) who introduces the play with an explanatory prologue. Hecuba was written around 424 b.c.e., and is considered to be one of Euripides' most bleak works. In the aftermath of the Trojan War, Hecuba, the wife of Trojan King Priam, finds herself in a state of utter desolation. Her husband and sons have been killed, and her daughters either slain or given as concubines to Greek kings, and she herself has been given to the hated Odysseus. From this beautifully penned story of destruction, loss, revenge, and the consequences of war has risen one of the most tragic figures in classical literature. |
Hecuba (Play) – Mythopedia
Mar 3, 2023 · The Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides, usually dated to the late 420s BCE. The play focuses on Hecuba, the former queen of Troy, and the misfortunes she suffers after her city is …
Hecuba Speech Significance in Hamlet - eNotes.com
Nov 2, 2023 · What is the significance of the Hecuba speech in act 2, scene 2 of Hamlet in relation to Hamlet's tragedy? In The Iliad, Hecuba is the wife of the King of Troy, Priam, and …
Briefly introduce the character Hecuba from Homer's Iliad.
Oct 8, 2024 · Quick answer: Hecuba is the Queen of Troy, wife of King Priam, and mother to notable sons like Hector and Paris. In Homer's Iliad, she appears in moments of deep sorrow, …
Pyrrhus And Priam - eNotes.com
Nov 2, 2023 · Also, even after the player's lengthy presentation of the speech about Priam, Pyrrhus, and Hecuba—which relates so closely to Hamlet's own vision of future events—why …
Hamlet Significant Allusions - eNotes.com
Notable mythological allusions in Hamlet include the following: In act 2, scene 2, Hamlet asks the players to recite a scene about Pyrrhus, Priam, and Hecuba.
The Trojan Women Quotes - eNotes.com
In this passage, Cassandra the seer, daughter of Hecuba and Priam (erstwhile Queen and King of Troy), attempts to convince a group of women that Troy is better off than most Greek states. …
Hector – Mythopedia
Jul 13, 2023 · Hector was a prince and hero of Troy, the firstborn son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and thus the heir to the Trojan throne. He married the princess Andromache, …
Make mad the guilty, and appall the free - eNotes.com
Having just heard an actor's impassioned recitation of the fall of Troy, the prince marvels that such feeling could be mustered for Hecuba, the Trojan queen, a mere indifferent fiction.
The Trojan Women Analysis - eNotes.com
The play doesn't follow a typical unified narrative but rather tells the story through portraits of the women concerned: Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra, and Helen, each of whom is a powerful ...
The Trojan Women Summary - eNotes.com
Queen Hecuba mourns the present and relives the past through various vignettes. She is to become Odysseus's slave and unsuccessfully tries to commit suicide in the fire of Troy.
Hecuba (Play) – Mythopedia
Mar 3, 2023 · The Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides, usually dated to the late 420s BCE. The play focuses on Hecuba, the former queen of Troy, and the misfortunes she suffers after her city is …
Hecuba Speech Significance in Hamlet - eNotes.com
Nov 2, 2023 · What is the significance of the Hecuba speech in act 2, scene 2 of Hamlet in relation to Hamlet's tragedy? In The Iliad, Hecuba is the wife of the King of Troy, Priam, and …
Briefly introduce the character Hecuba from Homer's Iliad.
Oct 8, 2024 · Quick answer: Hecuba is the Queen of Troy, wife of King Priam, and mother to notable sons like Hector and Paris. In Homer's Iliad, she appears in moments of deep sorrow, …
Pyrrhus And Priam - eNotes.com
Nov 2, 2023 · Also, even after the player's lengthy presentation of the speech about Priam, Pyrrhus, and Hecuba—which relates so closely to Hamlet's own vision of future events—why …
Hamlet Significant Allusions - eNotes.com
Notable mythological allusions in Hamlet include the following: In act 2, scene 2, Hamlet asks the players to recite a scene about Pyrrhus, Priam, and Hecuba.
The Trojan Women Quotes - eNotes.com
In this passage, Cassandra the seer, daughter of Hecuba and Priam (erstwhile Queen and King of Troy), attempts to convince a group of women that Troy is better off than most Greek states. …
Hector – Mythopedia
Jul 13, 2023 · Hector was a prince and hero of Troy, the firstborn son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, and thus the heir to the Trojan throne. He married the princess Andromache, …
Make mad the guilty, and appall the free - eNotes.com
Having just heard an actor's impassioned recitation of the fall of Troy, the prince marvels that such feeling could be mustered for Hecuba, the Trojan queen, a mere indifferent fiction.
The Trojan Women Analysis - eNotes.com
The play doesn't follow a typical unified narrative but rather tells the story through portraits of the women concerned: Hecuba, Andromache, Cassandra, and Helen, each of whom is a powerful ...
The Trojan Women Summary - eNotes.com
Queen Hecuba mourns the present and relives the past through various vignettes. She is to become Odysseus's slave and unsuccessfully tries to commit suicide in the fire of Troy.
