Hecuba

Also known as: Hector's mother · Family: Trojans · Role: queen · First appears: BOOK VI

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Hecuba) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Hecuba)

Life events

Hector refuses his parents’ pleas and remains outside the city to face Achilles.(BOOK XXII · 📍 Ilius)
- With: Hector Priam
- “Thus did the two with many tears implore their son, but they moved not the heart of Hector, and he stood his ground awaiting huge Achilles as he drew nearer towards him.”
Priam and Hecuba publicly lament Hector’s death as his body is dragged away.(BOOK XXII · 📍 Ilius)
- With: Priam Hector
- “Thus was the head of Hector being dishonoured in the dust. His mother tore her hair, and flung her veil from her with a loud cry as she looked upon her son. His father made piteous moan, and throughout the city the people fell to weeping and wailing.”
Priam prepares a ransom and departs Ilius with Idaeus to recover Hector’s body.(BOOK XXIV · 📍 Ilius)
- With: Priam Idaeus Hector
- “The old man made haste to mount his chariot, and drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.”

child: Hector (Hecuba is Hector's mother.) “My son, why have you left the battle to come hither?”

siblings with Asius “Asius, who was Hector’s uncle, being own brother to Hecuba”
parent: Dymas “own brother to Hecuba, and son of Dymas”
child: Hector “Asius, who was Hector’s uncle, being own brother to Hecuba”

child: Hector “Hector,” she cried, weeping bitterly the while, “Hector, my son, spurn not this breast”
child: Deiphobus “Deiphobus, you have always been dearest to me of all my brothers, children of Hecuba and Priam, but henceforth I shall rate you yet more highly, inasmuch as you have ventured outside the wall for my sake when all the others remain inside.”

child: Hector “when I gave him birth the threads of overruling fate were spun for him that dogs should eat his flesh far from his parents”
married with Priam “Then he went down into his fragrant store-room, high-vaulted, and made of cedar-wood, where his many treasures were kept, and he called Hecuba his wife.”

Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.