Hecuba, princess of Phrygia

born: -1235 or -1250 or -1255 or -1260

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecuba):

"Hecuba (also Hekabe; Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy, with whom she had 19 children. She was of Phrygian birth; her father was Dymas, and her mother (Eunoë) was said to be a daughter of Sangarius, god of the Sangarius River, the principal river of ancient Phrygia.

In the Iliad, Hecuba appears as the mother of Hector, and laments his death in a well-known speech in Book 24 of the epic.

With the god Apollo, Hecuba had a son named Troilus. An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated as long as Troilus reached the age of twenty alive. He was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.

Polydorus, Priam's youngest son by Hecuba, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War. The fighting grew vicious and Priam was frightened for the child's safety. After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself. Hecuba, though she was enslaved by the Achaeans when the city fell, eventually avenged her son, blinding Polymestor and killing his children.

In another tradition, Hecuba went insane upon seeing the corpses of her children Polydorus and Polyxena. Dante described this episode, which he derived from Italian sources:

   E quando la fortuna volse in basso

   l'altezza de' Troian che tutto ardiva,

   sì che 'nsieme col regno il re fu casso,

   Ecuba trista, misera e cattiva,

   poscia che vide Polissena morta,

   e del suo Polidoro in su la riva

   del mar si fu la dolorosa accorta,

   forsennata latrò sì come cane...

   And when fortune overturned the pride

   of the Trojans, who dared everything, so that

   both the king and his kingdom were destroyed,

   Poor wretched captured Hecuba,

   after she saw her Polyxena dead

   and found her Polydorus on the beach,

   was driven mad by sorrow

   and began barking like a dog...

~ Inferno XXX: 13-20

A third story says that she was given to Odysseus as a slave, but as she snarled and cursed at him, the gods turned her into a dog, allowing her to escape.

Hecuba in arts and literature

   * Central character of the play Hecuba by Euripides

   * Character in King Priam by David Park (1958-61)

   * Referenced in Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

   * Mentioned in "Fortune plango vulnera" of Carmina Burana

   * Character in the play The Trojan Women, also by Euripides

   * Mentioned in Act II Scene 2 of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare

   * Central character of Cortege of Eagles by Martha Graham (1967)

   * Character in the play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, by Jean Giraudoux

Primary sources

   * Virgil, Aeneid III.19-68

   * Homer, Iliad XVI.717-718

   * Solinus, De vita Caesarum X.22

   * Lactantius, Divinae institutions I.22

   * Pomponius Mela, De chorographia II.26

   * Ovid, Metamorphoses XIII.423-450, 481-571

Secondary sources

   * Tsotakou-Karveli. Lexicon of Greek Mythology. Athens: Sokoli, 1990."

ID: I62075

Name: Hecuba of Phrygia

Given Name: Hecuba

Surname: of Phrygia

Sex: F

_UID: 207DD2497EDB6F479E0FFE006D393372BD2E

Change Date: 26 Nov 2005

Death: Y

Marriage 1 PRIAM @ OF TROY

Married:

Children

Creusa of Troy

Forrás / Source:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&i...

Event(s)

Birth: abt 1215 BC PHRYGIA, BLACK SEA REGION, GREEK KINGDOMS, ANCIENT TURKEY

Death: BC OF SIMMERIA, BLACK SEA REGION, TROYA, ANCIENT TURKEY

Marriage(s)

Spouse: Priamo OF TROY, HIGH KING

Marriage: abt 1200 BC, BLACK SEA REGION, TROY, ANCIENT TURKEY

Priam married HECUBA/HEKABE. She was the daughter of Dymas, a Phrygian. Hecuba was made a captive of the Achaeans/Greeks after her husband's death. In various scenes depicting the Trojan war, she is portrayed on Greek vases as a beautiful young woman. A fresco in the Casa di Cecilio Iucundo at Pompeii shows a sad Hecuba looking down from a window on the procession that returns Hector's body to Troy. When Troy was born Hecuba had a dream that he would be the cause of the downfall of Troy so he was sent Mount Ida as a shepherd. (Bulfinch, 1968; Encyclopedia Mythica, 2005)

Hecuba (also Hekábe, Hecabe, Hécube; Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy, with whom she had 19 children. The most famous of her children was Hector of Troy. She was of Phrygian birth; her father was Dymas, and her mother Eunoë was said to be a daughter of Sangarius, god of the Sangarius River, the principal river of ancient Phrygia.

In the Iliad, Hecuba appears as the mother of Hector, and laments his death in a well-known speech in Book 24 of the epic.

With the god Apollo, Hecuba had a son named Troilus. An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated as long as Troilus reached the age of twenty alive. He was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.

Polydorus, Priam's youngest son by Hecuba, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War. The fighting grew vicious and Priam was frightened for the child's safety. After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself. Hecuba, though she was enslaved by the Achaeans when the city fell, eventually avenged her son, blinding Polymestor and killing his children.

In another tradition, Hecuba went insane upon seeing the corpses of her children Polydorus and Polyxena. Dante described this episode, which he derived from Italian sources:

E quando la fortuna volse in basso

l'altezza de' Troian che tutto ardiva,

sì che 'nsieme col regno il re fu casso,

Ecuba trista, misera e cattiva,

poscia che vide Polissena morta,

e del suo Polidoro in su la riva

del mar si fu la dolorosa accorta,

forsennata latrò sì come cane...

And when fortune overturned the pride

of the Trojans, who dared everything, so that

both the king and his kingdom were destroyed,

Poor wretched captured Hecuba,

after she saw her Polyxena dead

and found her Polydorus on the beach,

was driven mad by sorrow

and began barking like a dog...

~ Inferno XXX: 13-20

A third story says that she was given to Odysseus as a slave, but as she snarled and cursed at him, the gods turned her into a dog, allowing her to escape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecuba

born: -1235 or -1250

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecuba):

"Hecuba (also Hekabe; Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy, with whom she had 19 children. She was of Phrygian birth; her father was Dymas, and her mother (Eunoë) was said to be a daughter of Sangarius, god of the Sangarius River, the principal river of ancient Phrygia.

In the Iliad, Hecuba appears as the mother of Hector, and laments his death in a well-known speech in Book 24 of the epic.

With the god Apollo, Hecuba had a son named Troilus. An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated as long as Troilus reached the age of twenty alive. He was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.

Polydorus, Priam's youngest son by Hecuba, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War. The fighting grew vicious and Priam was frightened for the child's safety. After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself. Hecuba, though she was enslaved by the Achaeans when the city fell, eventually avenged her son, blinding Polymestor and killing his children.

In another tradition, Hecuba went insane upon seeing the corpses of her children Polydorus and Polyxena. Dante described this episode, which he derived from Italian sources:

E quando la fortuna volse in basso

l'altezza de' Troian che tutto ardiva,

sì che 'nsieme col regno il re fu casso,

Ecuba trista, misera e cattiva,

poscia che vide Polissena morta,

e del suo Polidoro in su la riva

del mar si fu la dolorosa accorta,

forsennata latrò sì come cane...

And when fortune overturned the pride

of the Trojans, who dared everything, so that

both the king and his kingdom were destroyed,

Poor wretched captured Hecuba,

after she saw her Polyxena dead

and found her Polydorus on the beach,

was driven mad by sorrow

and began barking like a dog...

~ Inferno XXX: 13-20

A third story says that she was given to Odysseus as a slave, but as she snarled and cursed at him, the gods turned her into a dog, allowing her to escape.

Hecuba in arts and literature

• Central character of the play Hecuba by Euripides
• Character in King Priam by David Park (1958-61)
• Referenced in Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
• Mentioned in "Fortune plango vulnera" of Carmina Burana
• Character in the play The Trojan Women, also by Euripides
• Mentioned in Act II Scene 2 of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
• Central character of Cortege of Eagles by Martha Graham (1967)
• Character in the play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, by Jean Giraudoux

Primary sources

• Virgil, Aeneid III.19-68
• Homer, Iliad XVI.717-718
• Solinus, De vita Caesarum X.22
• Lactantius, Divinae institutions I.22
• Pomponius Mela, De chorographia II.26
• Ovid, Metamorphoses XIII.423-450, 481-571

Secondary sources

• Tsotakou-Karveli. Lexicon of Greek Mythology. Athens: Sokoli, 1990."

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ID: I62075

Name: Hecuba of Phrygia

Given Name: Hecuba

Surname: of Phrygia

Sex: F

_UID: 207DD2497EDB6F479E0FFE006D393372BD2E

Change Date: 26 Nov 2005

Death: Y

Marriage 1 PRIAM @ OF TROY

Married:

Children

Creusa of Troy

Forrás / Source:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-f...

Event(s)

Birth: abt 1215 BC PHRYGIA, BLACK SEA REGION, GREEK KINGDOMS, ANCIENT TURKEY

Death: BC OF SIMMERIA, BLACK SEA REGION, TROYA, ANCIENT TURKEY

Marriage(s)

Spouse: Priamo OF TROY, HIGH KING

Marriage: abt 1200 BC, BLACK SEA REGION, TROY, ANCIENT TURKEY

Priam married HECUBA/HEKABE. She was the daughter of Dymas, a Phrygian. Hecuba was made a captive of the Achaeans/Greeks after her husband's death. In various scenes depicting the Trojan war, she is portrayed on Greek vases as a beautiful young woman. A fresco in the Casa di Cecilio Iucundo at Pompeii shows a sad Hecuba looking down from a window on the procession that returns Hector's body to Troy. When Troy was born Hecuba had a dream that he would be the cause of the downfall of Troy so he was sent Mount Ida as a shepherd. (Bulfinch, 1968; Encyclopedia Mythica, 2005)

Poss. Jullus i Roms oldemor.

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Husband / Partner:       Priamos Podarces (High King) af Troja 

 Mulige Børn:       Hector den trojanske   ,   Paris Alexander af TROY   ,   Troana Iluim af TROY   ,   Creusa (Cassandra) af TROY   ,   Helenus af TROY (King of skyterne) 

 Alternativ Mother of Mulige Børn :       Hecabe af Frygien [alt ped]

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 Hendes (evt.) Børnebørn:       Astyanax af TROY   ,   Franco   ,   Aganus af TROY   ,   Corythus af TROY   ,   Thor (believe) (King) i Thrakien   ,   Iulus Ascanius (grundlægger & 1st King) i ALBA LONGA   ,   Genger af skyterne 

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Fra http://fabpedigree.com/s055/f046443.htm

Father: Dymas of Phrygia b: 1300 BC in Anatolia, Asiatic Turkey Mother: Helenus or Eunoe

Father: Dymas of Phrygia b: 1300 BC in Anatolia, Asiatic Turkey Mother: Metope

Father: Dymas of Phrygia b: 1300 BC in Anatolia, Asiatic Turkey Mother: Telecleia

Father: Dymas of Phrygia b: 1300 BC in Anatolia, Asiatic Turkey Mother: Glaucippe

Father: Dymas of Phrygia b: 1300 BC in Anatolia, Asiatic Turkey Mother: Euagore

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Pronounced As: hekyoob , in Greek mythology, chief wife of Priam, king of Troy. Hecuba bore to Priam 19 children, including Paris, Hector, Troilus, Cassandra, and others who were prominent in the Trojan War. To save Polydorus, her youngest son, from the Greeks, Hecuba sent him to Polymnestor, king of Thrace. After the sack of Troy she was allotted to Odysseus, who on his way home stopped at Thrace. Learning there that Polymnestor had murdered Polydorus, Hecuba, in revenge, blinded the king and killed his children. She is an important character in Euripides' plays Hecuba and The Trojan Women. (Columbia Encyclopedia)