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subject	book bibliographic info
hecuba	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 71, 86, 130, 141, 142, 195 Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 72 Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 49, 52 Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 143 Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 15 Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 226, 227, 228, 231 Levine Allison and Crossan (2006), The Historical Jesus in Context, 375, 381, 383 Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 160 Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 62, 65, 232, 248 Penniman (2017), Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity, 57, 247 Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 78, 79, 89, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 132, 236 Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 51, 52, 53 de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 49, 218, 330, 331, 332, 333
hecuba, agamemnon, presiding over case of	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 142
hecuba, and alexander	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 553, 554
hecuba, and andromache in troades not mentioning, aphrodite, dialogue between	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 74, 75
hecuba, and chorus to, troades destruction of city, response of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 197, 198, 199
hecuba, and helen in troades on, eros, debate between	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49
hecuba, and helen, troades debate between	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49
hecuba, as prophets	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 101
hecuba, characters, tragic/mythical	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 82, 110, 115, 284
hecuba, euripides	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 592 Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 104 Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 51, 52, 53
hecuba, euripides,	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 62
hecuba, euripides, dramas by	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 172, 175, 190, 191, 192, 198
hecuba, in troades and, anthropomorphism, debate between helen and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 41, 46, 47, 48, 49
hecuba, in troades, sophia, wisdom in debate between helen and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 38, 39, 40, 48
hecuba, prophecies of cassandra, on	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 92
hecuba, retaliation, of	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 142
hecuba, revenge, of	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 142
hecuba, sacrifice, of polyxena, in	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 78, 79, 99, 100
hecuba, to zeus in troades and, aphrodite, appeal of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 82
hecuba, to zeus in troades and, eros, appeal of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 82
hecubas, anticipation of fame, trojan women, euripides	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 103
hecubas, appeal to, troades	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 11, 12, 37, 82

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "hecuba"

1. Homer, Iliad, 6.357-6.358, 24.750-24.753 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hecuba • Trojan Women (Euripides), Hecubas anticipation of fame • sacrifice, of Polyxena, in Hecuba

Found in books: Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 226, 227, 231; Liatsi (2021), Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond, 44; Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 103; Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 79

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6.357 οἷσιν ἐπὶ Ζεὺς θῆκε κακὸν μόρον, ὡς καὶ ὀπίσσω ^6.358 ἀνθρώποισι πελώμεθʼ ἀοίδιμοι ἐσσομένοισι. ^24.750 οἳ δʼ ἄρα σεῦ κήδοντο καὶ ἐν θανάτοιό περ αἴσῃ. ^24.751 ἄλλους μὲν γὰρ παῖδας ἐμοὺς πόδας ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεὺς ^24.752 πέρνασχʼ ὅν τινʼ ἕλεσκε πέρην ἁλὸς ἀτρυγέτοιο, ^24.753 ἐς Σάμον ἔς τʼ Ἴμβρον καὶ Λῆμνον ἀμιχθαλόεσσαν·'' None

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6.357 my brother, since above all others has trouble encompassed thy heart because of shameless me, and the folly of Alexander; on whom Zeus hath brought an evil doom, that even in days to come we may be a song for men that are yet to be. Then made answer to her great Hector of the flashing helm: ^24.750 and therefore have they had care of thee for all thou art in the doom of death. For of other sons of mine whomsoever he took would swift-footed Achilles sell beyond the unresting sea, unto Samos and Imbros and Lemnos, shrouded in smoke, but, when from thee he had taken away thy life with the long-edged bronze ^24.753 and therefore have they had care of thee for all thou art in the doom of death. For of other sons of mine whomsoever he took would swift-footed Achilles sell beyond the unresting sea, unto Samos and Imbros and Lemnos, shrouded in smoke, but, when from thee he had taken away thy life with the long-edged bronze '' None

2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1119-1120, 1142, 1152 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hecuba • prophets, Hecuba as

Found in books: Mowat (2021), Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic, 45; Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 89, 101, 102

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1119 ποίαν Ἐρινὺν τήνδε δώμασιν κέλῃ'¹¹²⁰ ἐπορθιάζειν; οὔ με φαιδρύνει λόγος. ¹¹⁴² νόμον ἄνομον, οἷά τις ξουθὰ ¹¹⁵² τὰ δʼ ἐπίφοβα δυσφάτῳ κλαγγᾷ ' None

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1119 What this Erinus which i’ the house thou callest '¹¹²⁰ To raise her cry? Not me thy word enlightens! ¹¹⁴² A lay — no lay! ¹¹⁴² Like some brown nightingale ¹¹⁵² Thou strikest up in tune, yet all the while ' None

3. Euripides, Hecuba, 466-470, 792, 798-801, 805, 807-808, 824-830, 836-845, 850-853, 870-875, 902-904, 1118-1119 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Agamemnon, presiding over case of Hecuba • Aphrodite, dialogue between Hecuba and Andromache in Troades not mentioning • Euripides, Hecuba • Euripides, Hecubas rhetoric in • Hecuba • Hecuba (Euripides) • retaliation, of Hecuba • revenge, of Hecuba • sacrifice, of Polyxena, in Hecuba

Found in books: Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 142; Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 283; Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 90; Liatsi (2021), Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond, 132, 133, 134; Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 75, 78; Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 51, 52, 53

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466 ἢ Παλλάδος ἐν πόλει ⁴⁶⁷ τὰς καλλιδίφρους ̓Αθα- ⁴⁶⁸ ναίας ἐν κροκέῳ πέπλῳ ⁴⁶⁹ ζεύξομαι ἆρα πώλους ἐν' "⁴⁷⁰ δαιδαλέαισι ποικίλλους'" ⁷⁹² δείσας δέδρακεν ἔργον ἀνοσιώτατον, ⁷⁹⁸ ἡμεῖς μὲν οὖν δοῦλοί τε κἀσθενεῖς ἴσως:' "⁷⁹⁹ ἀλλ' οἱ θεοὶ σθένουσι χὡ κείνων κρατῶν" '⁸⁰⁰ Νόμος: νόμῳ γὰρ τοὺς θεοὺς ἡγούμεθα' "⁸⁰¹ καὶ ζῶμεν ἄδικα καὶ δίκαι' ὡρισμένοι:" ⁸⁰⁵ οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἴσον.' "⁸⁰⁷ οἴκτιρον ἡμᾶς, ὡς †γραφεύς† τ' ἀποσταθεὶς" "⁸⁰⁸ ἰδοῦ με κἀνάθρησον οἷ' ἔχω κακά." ⁸²⁴ καὶ μήν — ἴσως μὲν τοῦ λόγου κενὸν τόδε,' "⁸²⁵ Κύπριν προβάλλειν: ἀλλ' ὅμως εἰρήσεται:" '⁸²⁶ πρὸς σοῖσι πλευροῖς παῖς ἐμὴ κοιμίζεται ⁸²⁷ ἡ φοιβάς, ἣν καλοῦσι Κασάνδραν Φρύγες.' "⁸²⁸ ποῦ τὰς φίλας δῆτ' εὐφρόνας δείξεις, ἄναξ," '⁸²⁹ ἢ τῶν ἐν εὐνῇ φιλτάτων ἀσπασμάτων' "⁸³⁰ χάριν τίν' ἕξει παῖς ἐμή, κείνης δ' ἐγώ;" ⁸³⁶ εἴ μοι γένοιτο φθόγγος ἐν βραχίοσι ⁸³⁷ καὶ χερσὶ καὶ κόμαισι καὶ ποδῶν βάσει ⁸³⁸ ἢ Δαιδάλου τέχναισιν ἢ θεῶν τινος,' "⁸³⁹ ὡς πάνθ' ὁμαρτῇ σῶν ἔχοιντο γουνάτων" "⁸⁴⁰ κλαίοντ', ἐπισκήπτοντα παντοίους λόγους." "⁸⁴¹ ὦ δέσποτ', ὦ μέγιστον ̔́Ελλησιν φάος," '⁸⁴² πιθοῦ, παράσχες χεῖρα τῇ πρεσβύτιδι' "⁸⁴³ τιμωρόν, εἰ καὶ μηδέν ἐστιν, ἀλλ' ὅμως." "⁸⁴⁴ ἐσθλοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς τῇ δίκῃ θ' ὑπηρετεῖν" '⁸⁴⁵ καὶ τοὺς κακοὺς δρᾶν πανταχοῦ κακῶς ἀεί. ⁸⁵⁰ ἐγὼ σὲ καὶ σὸν παῖδα καὶ τύχας σέθεν,' "⁸⁵¹ ̔Εκάβη, δι' οἴκτου χεῖρά θ' ἱκεσίαν ἔχω," "⁸⁵² καὶ βούλομαι θεῶν θ' οὕνεκ' ἀνόσιον ξένον" '⁸⁵³ καὶ τοῦ δικαίου τήνδε σοι δοῦναι δίκην, ⁸⁷⁰ σύνισθι μὲν γάρ, ἤν τι βουλεύσω κακὸν' "⁸⁷¹ τῷ τόνδ' ἀποκτείναντι, συνδράσῃς δὲ μή." "⁸⁷² ἢν δ' ἐξ ̓Αχαιῶν θόρυβος ἢ 'πικουρία" '⁸⁷³ πάσχοντος ἀνδρὸς Θρῃκὸς οἷα πείσεται ⁸⁷⁴ φανῇ τις, εἶργε μὴ δοκῶν ἐμὴν χάριν.' "⁸⁷⁵ τὰ δ' ἄλλα — θάρσει — πάντ' ἐγὼ θήσω καλῶς." "⁹⁰² γένοιτο δ' εὖ πως: πᾶσι γὰρ κοινὸν τόδε," "⁹⁰³ ἰδίᾳ θ' ἑκάστῳ καὶ πόλει, τὸν μὲν κακὸν" '⁹⁰⁴ κακόν τι πάσχειν, τὸν δὲ χρηστὸν εὐτυχεῖν.' "¹¹¹⁸ τίς ὄμμ' ἔθηκε τυφλὸν αἱμάξας κόρας,"¹¹¹⁹ παῖδάς τε τούσδ' ἔκτεινεν; ἦ μέγαν χόλον" '" None

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466 Or in the city of Pallas, the home of Athena of the lovely chariot, shall I then upon her saffron robe yoke horses, ⁴⁷⁰ embroidering them on my web in brilliant varied shades, or the race of Titans, put to sleep by Zeus the son of Cronos with bolt of flashing flame? Choru ⁷⁹² this most godless host, fearless alike of gods in heaven or hell, who has done a most unholy deed; who, though often he had shared my board and been counted first of all my guest-friend ⁷⁹⁸ I may be a slave and weak as well, but the gods are strong, and Custom too which prevails over them, ⁸⁰⁰ for by custom it is that we believe in them and set up boundaries of right and wrong for our lives. Now if this principle, when referred to you, is to be set at nothing, and they are to escape punishment who murder guests or dare to plunder the temples of gods, ⁸⁰⁵ then all fairness in human matters is at an end. Consider this then a disgrace and show regard for me, have pity on me, and, like an artist standing back from his picture, look on me and closely scan my piteous state. I was once a queen, but now I am your slave; ⁸²⁴ How shall anyone hereafter hope for prosperity? All those my sons are gone from me, and she, my daughter, is a slave and suffers shame. I am lost; I see the smoke leaping over my city. Further—though this is perhaps idly urged, ⁸²⁵ to plead your love, still I will put the case—at your side lies my daughter, Cassandra, the inspired maiden, as the Phrygians call her. How then, king, will you acknowledge those nights of rapture, or what return shall my daughter or I her mother have ⁸³⁰ for the love she has lavished on her lord? For from darkness and the endearments of the night mortals have their keenest joys. Listen, then; do you see this corpse? By doing him a service, you will do it to a kinsman of your bride’s. ⁸³⁶ I have only one thing yet to urge. Oh! would I had a voice in arms, in hands, in hair and feet, placed there by the arts of Daedalus or some god, that all together they might with tears embrace your knees, ⁸⁴⁰ bringing a thousand pleas to bear on you! O my lord and master, most glorious light of Hellas , listen, stretch forth a helping hand to this aged woman, for all she is a thing of nothing; still do so. For it is always a good man’s duty to help the right, ⁸⁴⁵ and to punish evil-doers wherever found. Chorus Leader ⁸⁵⁰ Hecuba, I feel compassion for you and your son and your ill-fortune, as well as for your suppliant gesture, and I would gladly see that impious host pay you this forfeit for the sake of heaven and justice, if I could only find some way to help you ⁸⁷⁰ Thus: be aware of my plot if I devise mischief against this murderer, but refrain from any share in it. And if any uproar or attempt at rescue breaks out among the Achaeans, when the Thracian is suffering his doom, check it without seeming to do so on my account. ⁸⁷⁵ For what remains—take heart—I will arrange everything well. Agamemnon ⁹⁰² but as it is, for the god sends forth no favoring breeze, the army must wait and look for a calm voyage. Good luck to you, for this is the interest alike of individual and state, that the wrong-doer be punished and the good man prosper. Agamemnon departs as Hecuba withdraws into the tent. Choru ¹¹¹⁸ What! hapless Polymestor, who has stricken you? who has blinded your eyes, staining the pupils with blood? who has slain these children? whoever he was, fierce must have been his wrath against you and your children. Polymestor'¹¹¹⁹ What! hapless Polymestor, who has stricken you? who has blinded your eyes, staining the pupils with blood? who has slain these children? whoever he was, fierce must have been his wrath against you and your children. Polymestor ' None

4. Euripides, Medea, 409 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Euripides, Hecuba • Hecuba

Found in books: Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 141; Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 69

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409 κακῶν δὲ πάντων τέκτονες σοφώταται.'' None

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409 to the race of Sisyphus Sisyphus was the founder of the royal house of Corinth. by reason of this wedding of Jason, sprung, as thou art, from a noble sire, and of the Sun-god’s race. Thou hast cunning; and, more than this, we women, though by nature little apt for virtuous deeds, are most expert to fashion any mischief. Choru'' None

5. Euripides, Trojan Women, 105-110, 348-352, 361-364, 427-437, 441, 914-966, 969-1032, 1242-1245, 1322-1324 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hecuba • Troades debate between Hecuba and Helen • Troades destruction of city, response of Hecuba and Chorus to • Trojan Women (Euripides), Hecubas anticipation of fame • anthropomorphism, debate between Helen and Hecuba in Troades and • characters, tragic/mythical, Hecuba • eros, debate between Hecuba and Helen in Troades on • prophecies of Cassandra, on Hecuba • sacrifice, of Polyxena, in Hecuba • sophia, wisdom in debate between Helen and Hecuba in Troades

Found in books: Fabre-Serris et al. (2021), Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity, 158; Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 115; Maciver (2012), Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, 170; Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 78, 79, 89, 92, 103, 105, 106, 236; Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 48, 49, 78, 79, 198; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 218, 331, 333

sup>108 ὦ πολὺς ὄγκος συστελλόμενος' "³⁴⁸ γάμους γαμεῖσθαι τούσδ' ἐδόξαζόν ποτε." '³⁴⁹ παράδος ἐμοὶ φῶς: οὐ γὰρ ὀρθὰ πυρφορεῖς' "³⁵⁰ μαινὰς θοάζους', οὐδέ ς' αἱ τύχαι, τέκνον," "³⁵⁰ † ἐσωφρονήκας' †, ἀλλ' ἔτ' ἐν ταὐτῷ μένεις." "³⁵¹ ἐσφέρετε πεύκας, δάκρυά τ' ἀνταλλάξατε" '³⁵² τοῖς τῆσδε μέλεσι, Τρῳάδες, γαμηλίοις.' "³⁶¹ ἀλλ' ἄττ' ἐάσω: πέλεκυν οὐχ ὑμνήσομεν," '³⁶² ὃς ἐς τράχηλον τὸν ἐμὸν εἶσι χἁτέρων:' "³⁶³ μητροκτόνους τ' ἀγῶνας, οὓς οὑμοὶ γάμοι" "³⁶⁴ θήσουσιν, οἴκων τ' ̓Ατρέως ἀνάστασιν." "⁴²⁷ σὺ τὴν ἐμὴν φῂς μητέρ' εἰς ̓Οδυσσέως" "⁴²⁸ ἥξειν μέλαθρα; ποῦ δ' ̓Απόλλωνος λόγοι," "⁴²⁹ οἵ φασιν αὐτὴν εἰς ἔμ' ἡρμηνευμένοι" "⁴³⁰ αὐτοῦ θανεῖσθαι; τἄλλα δ' οὐκ ὀνειδιῶ." "⁴³¹ δύστηνος, οὐκ οἶδ' οἷά νιν μένει παθεῖν:" '⁴³² ὡς χρυσὸς αὐτῷ τἀμὰ καὶ Φρυγῶν κακὰ' "⁴³³ δόξει ποτ' εἶναι. δέκα γὰρ ἐκπλήσας ἔτη" "⁴³⁴ πρὸς τοῖσιν ἐνθάδ', ἵξεται μόνος πάτραν" '⁴³⁵ οὗ δὴ στενὸν δίαυλον ᾤκισται πέτρας' "⁴³⁶ δεινὴ Χάρυβδις, ὠμοβρώς τ' ὀρειβάτης" "⁴³⁷ Κύκλωψ, Λιγυστίς θ' ἡ συῶν μορφώτρια" ⁴⁴¹ πικρὰν ̓Οδυσσεῖ γῆρυν. ὡς δὲ συντέμω, ⁹¹⁴ ἴσως με, κἂν εὖ κἂν κακῶς δόξω λέγειν, ⁹¹⁵ οὐκ ἀνταμείψῃ πολεμίαν ἡγούμενος. ⁹¹⁹ πρῶτον μὲν ἀρχὰς ἔτεκεν ἥδε τῶν κακῶν,' "⁹²⁰ Πάριν τεκοῦσα: δεύτερον δ' ἀπώλεσε" "⁹²¹ Τροίαν τε κἄμ' ὁ πρέσβυς οὐ κτανὼν βρέφος," "⁹²² δαλοῦ πικρὸν μίμημ', ̓Αλέξανδρόν ποτε." '⁹²⁴ ἔκρινε τρισσὸν ζεῦγος ὅδε τριῶν θεῶν: ⁹²⁵ καὶ Παλλάδος μὲν ἦν ̓Αλεξάνδρῳ δόσις' "⁹²⁶ Φρυξὶ στρατηγοῦνθ' ̔Ελλάδ' ἐξανιστάναι," "⁹²⁷ ̔́Ηρα δ' ὑπέσχετ' ̓Ασιάδ' Εὐρώπης θ' ὅρους" "⁹²⁸ τυραννίδ' ἕξειν, εἴ σφε κρίνειεν Πάρις:" '⁹²⁹ Κύπρις δὲ τοὐμὸν εἶδος ἐκπαγλουμένη' "⁹³⁰ δώσειν ὑπέσχετ', εἰ θεὰς ὑπερδράμοι" "⁹³¹ κάλλει. τὸν ἔνθεν δ' ὡς ἔχει σκέψαι λόγον:" "⁹³² νικᾷ Κύπρις θεάς, καὶ τοσόνδ' οὑμοὶ γάμοι" "⁹³³ ὤνησαν ̔Ελλάδ': οὐ κρατεῖσθ' ἐκ βαρβάρων," "⁹³⁴ οὔτ' ἐς δόρυ σταθέντες, οὐ τυραννίδι." "⁹³⁵ ἃ δ' εὐτύχησεν ̔Ελλάς, ὠλόμην ἐγὼ" '⁹³⁶ εὐμορφίᾳ πραθεῖσα, κὠνειδίζομαι ⁹³⁷ ἐξ ὧν ἐχρῆν με στέφανον ἐπὶ κάρᾳ λαβεῖν. ⁹³⁸ οὔπω με φήσεις αὐτὰ τἀν ποσὶν λέγειν,' "⁹³⁹ ὅπως ἀφώρμης' ἐκ δόμων τῶν σῶν λάθρα." "⁹⁴⁰ ἦλθ' οὐχὶ μικρὰν θεὸν ἔχων αὑτοῦ μέτα" "⁹⁴¹ ὁ τῆσδ' ἀλάστωρ, εἴτ' ̓Αλέξανδρον θέλεις" '⁹⁴² ὀνόματι προσφωνεῖν νιν εἴτε καὶ Πάριν: ⁹⁴³ ὅν, ὦ κάκιστε, σοῖσιν ἐν δόμοις λιπὼν ⁹⁴⁴ Σπάρτης ἀπῆρας νηὶ Κρησίαν χθόνα. ⁹⁴⁵ εἶἑν.' "⁹⁴⁶ οὐ σέ, ἀλλ' ἐμαυτὴν τοὐπὶ τῷδ' ἐρήσομαι:" "⁹⁴⁷ τί δὴ φρονοῦσά γ' ἐκ δόμων ἅμ' ἑσπόμην" '⁹⁴⁸ ξένῳ, προδοῦσα πατρίδα καὶ δόμους ἐμούς; ⁹⁴⁹ τὴν θεὸν κόλαζε καὶ Διὸς κρείσσων γενοῦ, ⁹⁵⁰ κείνης δὲ δοῦλός ἐστι: συγγνώμη δ' ἐμοί." "⁹⁵⁰ ὃς τῶν μὲν ἄλλων δαιμόνων ἔχει κράτος,' "⁹⁵¹ ἔνθεν δ' ἔχοις ἂν εἰς ἔμ' εὐπρεπῆ λόγον:" "⁹⁵² ἐπεὶ θανὼν γῆς ἦλθ' ̓Αλέξανδρος μυχούς," "⁹⁵³ χρῆν μ', ἡνίκ' οὐκ ἦν θεοπόνητά μου λέχη," "⁹⁵⁴ λιποῦσαν οἴκους ναῦς ἐπ' ̓Αργείων μολεῖν." '⁹⁵⁵ ἔσπευδον αὐτὸ τοῦτο: μάρτυρες δέ μοι' '⁹⁶³ πρὸς σοῦ δικαίως, ἣν ὁ μὲν βίᾳ γαμεῖ,' "⁹⁶⁴ τὰ δ' οἴκοθεν κεῖν' ἀντὶ νικητηρίων" ⁹⁶⁹ ταῖς θεαῖσι πρῶτα σύμμαχος γενήσομαι ⁹⁷⁰ καὶ τήνδε δείξω μὴ λέγουσαν ἔνδικα. ⁹⁷¹ ἐγὼ γὰρ ̔́Ηραν παρθένον τε Παλλάδα ⁹⁷² οὐκ ἐς τοσοῦτον ἀμαθίας ἐλθεῖν δοκῶ,' "⁹⁷³ ὥσθ' ἣ μὲν ̓́Αργος βαρβάροις ἀπημπόλα," "⁹⁷⁴ Παλλὰς δ' ̓Αθήνας Φρυξὶ δουλεύειν ποτέ," '⁹⁷⁵ εἰ παιδιαῖσι καὶ χλιδῇ μορφῆς πέρι' "⁹⁷⁶ ἦλθον πρὸς ̓́Ιδην. τοῦ γὰρ οὕνεκ' ἂν θεὰ" "⁹⁷⁷ ̔́Ηρα τοσοῦτον ἔσχ' ἔρωτα καλλονῆς;" "⁹⁷⁸ πότερον ἀμείνον' ὡς λάβῃ Διὸς πόσιν;" '⁹⁷⁹ ἢ γάμον ̓Αθηνᾶ θεῶν τίνος θηρωμένη — ⁹⁸⁰ ἣ παρθενείαν πατρὸς ἐξῃτήσατο, ⁹⁸¹ φεύγουσα λέκτρα; μὴ ἀμαθεῖς ποίει θεὰς ⁹⁸² τὸ σὸν κακὸν κοσμοῦσα, μὴ οὐ πείσῃς σοφούς.' "⁹⁸³ Κύπριν δ' ἔλεξας — ταῦτα γὰρ γέλως πολύς —" '⁹⁸⁴ ἐλθεῖν ἐμῷ ξὺν παιδὶ Μενέλεω δόμους.' "⁹⁸⁵ οὐκ ἂν μένους' ἂν ἥσυχός ς' ἐν οὐρανῷ" '⁹⁸⁶ αὐταῖς ̓Αμύκλαις ἤγαγεν πρὸς ̓́Ιλιον; ⁹⁸⁷ ἦν οὑμὸς υἱὸς κάλλος ἐκπρεπέστατος,' "⁹⁸⁸ ὁ σὸς δ' ἰδών νιν νοῦς ἐποιήθη Κύπρις:" "⁹⁸⁹ τὰ μῶρα γὰρ πάντ' ἐστὶν ̓Αφροδίτη βροτοῖς," "⁹⁹⁰ καὶ τοὔνομ' ὀρθῶς ἀφροσύνης ἄρχει θεᾶς." '⁹⁹¹ ὃν εἰσιδοῦσα βαρβάροις ἐσθήμασι ⁹⁹² χρυσῷ τε λαμπρὸν ἐξεμαργώθης φρένας.' "⁹⁹³ ἐν μὲν γὰρ ̓́Αργει μίκρ' ἔχους' ἀνεστρέφου," "⁹⁹⁴ Σπάρτης δ' ἀπαλλαχθεῖσα τὴν Φρυγῶν πόλιν" '⁹⁹⁵ χρυσῷ ῥέουσαν ἤλπισας κατακλύσειν' "⁹⁹⁶ δαπάναισιν: οὐδ' ἦν ἱκανά σοι τὰ Μενέλεω" '⁹⁹⁷ μέλαθρα ταῖς σαῖς ἐγκαθυβρίζειν τρυφαῖς.' "⁹⁹⁸ εἶἑν: βίᾳ γὰρ παῖδα φῄς ς' ἄγειν ἐμόν:" "⁹⁹⁹ τίς Σπαρτιατῶν ᾔσθετ'; ἢ ποίαν βοὴν" '¹⁰⁰⁰ ἀνωλόλυξας — Κάστορος νεανίου'¹⁰⁰¹ τοῦ συζύγου τ' ἔτ' ὄντος, οὐ κατ' ἄστρα πω;" '¹⁰⁰² ἐπεὶ δὲ Τροίαν ἦλθες ̓Αργεῖοί τέ σου' "¹⁰⁰³ κατ' ἴχνος, ἦν δὲ δοριπετὴς ἀγωνία," "¹⁰⁰⁴ εἰ μὲν τὰ τοῦδε κρείσσον' ἀγγέλλοιτό σοι," "¹⁰⁰⁵ Μενέλαον ᾔνεις, παῖς ὅπως λυποῖτ' ἐμὸς" '¹⁰⁰⁶ ἔχων ἔρωτος ἀνταγωνιστὴν μέγαν:' "¹⁰⁰⁷ εἰ δ' εὐτυχοῖεν Τρῶες, οὐδὲν ἦν ὅδε." "¹⁰⁰⁸ ἐς τὴν τύχην δ' ὁρῶσα τοῦτ' ἤσκεις, ὅπως" "¹⁰⁰⁹ ἕποι' ἅμ' αὐτῇ, τῇ ἀρετῇ δ' οὐκ ἤθελες." '¹⁰¹⁰ κἄπειτα πλεκταῖς σῶμα σὸν κλέπτειν λέγεις' "¹⁰¹¹ πύργων καθιεῖς', ὡς μένους' ἀκουσίως;" "¹⁰¹² ποῦ δῆτ' ἐλήφθης ἢ βρόχους ἀρτωμένη" "¹⁰¹³ ἢ φάσγανον θήγους', ἃ γενναία γυνὴ" '¹⁰¹⁴ δράσειεν ἂν ποθοῦσα τὸν πάρος πόσιν;' "¹⁰¹⁵ καίτοι ς' ἐνουθέτουν γε πολλὰ πολλάκις:" "¹⁰¹⁶ ̓͂Ω θύγατερ, ἔξελθ': οἱ δ' ἐμοὶ παῖδες γάμους" "¹⁰¹⁷ ἄλλους γαμοῦσι, σὲ δ' ἐπὶ ναῦς ̓Αχαιϊκὰς" '¹⁰¹⁸ πέμψω συνεκκλέψασα: καὶ παῦσον μάχης' "¹⁰¹⁹ ̔́Ελληνας ἡμᾶς τε. ἀλλὰ σοὶ τόδ' ἦν πικρόν." '¹⁰²⁰ ἐν τοῖς ̓Αλεξάνδρου γὰρ ὕβριζες δόμοις' "¹⁰²¹ καὶ προσκυνεῖσθαι βαρβάρων ὕπ' ἤθελες:" '¹⁰²² μεγάλα γὰρ ἦν σοι. — κἀπὶ τοῖσδε σὸν δέμας ¹⁰²³ ἐξῆλθες ἀσκήσασα κἄβλεψας πόσει' "¹⁰²⁴ τὸν αὐτὸν αἰθέρ', ὦ κατάπτυστον κάρα:" '¹⁰²⁵ ἣν χρῆν ταπεινὴν ἐν πέπλων ἐρειπίοις,' "¹⁰²⁶ φρίκῃ τρέμουσαν, κρᾶτ' ἀπεσκυθισμένην" '¹⁰²⁷ ἐλθεῖν, τὸ σῶφρον τῆς ἀναιδείας πλέον ¹⁰²⁸ ἔχουσαν ἐπὶ τοῖς πρόσθεν ἡμαρτημένοις.' "¹⁰²⁹ Μενέλα', ἵν' εἰδῇς οἷ τελευτήσω λόγον," "¹⁰³⁰ στεφάνωσον ̔Ελλάδ' ἀξίως τήνδε κτανὼν" '¹⁰³¹ σαυτοῦ, νόμον δὲ τόνδε ταῖς ἄλλαισι θὲς ¹⁰³² γυναιξί, θνῄσκειν ἥτις ἂν προδῷ πόσιν. ¹²⁴² μάτην δ' ἐβουθυτοῦμεν. εἰ δὲ μὴ θεὸς" '¹²⁴³ ἔστρεψε τἄνω περιβαλὼν κάτω χθονός, ¹²⁴⁴ ἀφανεῖς ἂν ὄντες οὐκ ἂν ὑμνήθημεν ἂν ¹²⁴⁵ μούσαις ἀοιδὰς δόντες ὑστέρων βροτῶν.' "¹³²² ὄνομα δὲ γᾶς ἀφανὲς εἶσιν: ἄλλᾳ δ'" "¹³²³ ἄλλο φροῦδον, οὐδ' ἔτ' ἔστιν" '¹³²⁴ ἁ τάλαινα Τροία.' "" None

sup>108 Ah me! ah me! What else but tears is now my hapless lot, whose country, children, husband, all are lost? Ah! the high-blown pride of ancestors, humbled! how brought to nothing after all! ³⁴⁸ beyond my blackest expectation. Ah, my child! how little did I ever dream that such would be your marriage, a captive, and of Argos too! Give up the torch to me; you do not bear its blaze aright in your wild frantic course, nor have your afflictions left you in your sober senses, ³⁵⁰ but still you are as frantic as before. Take in those torches, Trojan friends, and for her wedding madrigals weep your tears instead. Cassandra ³⁶¹ to avenge my father’s and my brothers’ death. But let that go; I will not tell of that axe which shall sever my neck and the necks of others, or of the conflict ending in a mother’s death, which my marriage shall cause, nor of the overthrow of Atreus’ house. ⁴²⁷ the name they do? All men unite in hating with one common hate the attendants of kings or governments. You say my mother shall come to the halls of Odysseus? Where then are Apollo’s words, so clear to me in their interpretation, which declare ⁴³⁰ that she shall die here? What else remains, I will not taunt her with. Unhappy Odysseus, he does not know the sufferings that await him; or how these ills I and my Phrygians endure shall one day seem to him precious as gold. For beyond the ten long years spent at Troy he shall drag out other ten and then come to his country all alone . . . ⁴³⁵ where dreadful Charybdis lurks in a narrow channel between the rocks; past Cyclops the savage shepherd, and Ligurian Circe who turns men to swine; shipwrecked often upon the salt sea-wave; longing to eat the lotus, and the sacred cattle of the sun, ⁴⁴¹ whose flesh shall utter in the days to come a human voice, bitter to Odysseus. In brief, he shall descend alive to Hades, and, though he shall escape the waters’ flood, yet shall he find a thousand troubles in his country when he arrives. Cassandra ⁹¹⁴ Perhaps you will not answer me, from counting me a foe, ⁹¹⁵ whether my words seem good or ill. Yet I will put my charges and yours over against each other, and then reply to the accusations I suppose you will advance against me. First, then, that woman was the author of these trouble ⁹²⁰ by giving birth to Paris ; next, old Priam ruined Troy and me, because he did not slay his child Alexander, baleful semblance of a fire-brand, Hecuba had dreamed she would hear a son who would cause the ruin of Troy ; on the birth of Paris an oracle confirmed her fears. long ago. Hear what followed. This man was to judge the claims of three rival goddesses; ⁹²⁵ o Pallas offered him command of all the Phrygians, and the destruction of Hellas ; Hera promised he should spread his dominion over Asia , and the utmost bounds of Europe , if he would decide for her; but Cypris spoke in rapture of my loveliness, ⁹³⁰ and promised him this gift, if she should have the preference over those two for beauty. Now mark the inference I deduce from this; Cypris won the day over the goddesses, and thus far has my marriage proved of benefit to Hellas , that you are not subject to barbarian rule, neither vanquished in the strife, nor yet by tyrants crushed. ⁹³⁵ What Hellas gained, was ruin to me, sold for my beauty, and now I am reproached for that which should have set a crown upon my head. But you will say I am silent on the real matter at hand, how it was I started forth and left your house by stealth. ⁹⁴⁰ With no small goddess at his side he came, my evil genius, call him Alexander or Paris , as you will; and you, villain, left him behind in your house, and sailed away from Sparta to the land of Crete . ⁹⁴⁵ Enough of this! For all that followed I must question myself, not you; what thought led me to follow the stranger from your house, traitress to my country and my home? Punish the goddess, show yourself more mighty even than Zeus, who, though he lords it over the other gods, ⁹⁵⁰ is her slave; therefore I may well be pardoned. Still, from this you might draw a specious argument against me; when Paris died, and earth concealed his corpse, I should have left his house and sought the Argive fleet, since my marriage was no longer in the hands of gods. ⁹⁵⁵ That was what I was eager to do; and the warders on the towers and watchmen on the walls can bear me witness, for often they found me seeking to let myself down stealthily by cords from the battlements but there was that new husband, Deiphobus, that carried me off ⁹⁶² by force to be his wife against the will of Troy . How then, my lord, could I be justly put to death . . . by you, with any show of right, seeing that he wedded me against my will, and those my other natural gifts have served a bitter slavery, instead of leading on to triumph? If it is your will indeed ⁹⁶⁹ First I will take up the cause of those goddesses, ⁹⁷⁰ and prove how she perverts the truth. For I can never believe that Hera or the maiden Pallas would have been guilty of such folly, the one to sell her Argos to barbarians, or that Pallas ever would make her Athens subject to the Phrygians, ⁹⁷⁵ coming as they did in mere wanton sport to Ida to contest the palm of beauty. For why should goddess Hera set her heart so much on such a prize? Was it to win a nobler lord than Zeus? or was Athena hunting down among the gods a husband, ⁹⁸⁰ he who in her dislike of marriage won from her father the gift of remaining unwed? Do not seek to impute folly to the goddesses, in the attempt to adorn your own sin; never will you persuade the wise. Next you have said—what well may make men jeer—that Cypris came with my son to the house of Menelaus. ⁹⁸⁵ Could she not have stayed quietly in heaven and brought you and Amyclae as well to Ilium ? ⁹⁸⁷ No! my son was exceedingly handsome, and when you saw him your mind straight became your Aphrodite; for every folly that men commit, they lay upon this goddess, ⁹⁹⁰ and rightly does her name It is almost impossible to reproduce the play on words in Ἀφροδίτη and ἀφροσύνη ; perhaps the nearest approach would be sensuality and senseless. begin the word for senselessness ; so when you caught sight of him in gorgeous foreign clothes, ablaze with gold, your senses utterly forsook you. Yes, for in Argos you had moved in simple state, but, once free of Sparta , ⁹⁹⁵ it was your hope to deluge by your lavish outlay Phrygia ’s town, that flowed with gold; nor was the palace of Menelaus rich enough for your luxury to riot in. ⁹⁹⁸ Enough of this! My son carried you off by force, so you say; what Spartan saw this? what cry for help ¹⁰⁰⁰ did you ever raise, though Castor was still alive, a vigorous youth, and his brother also, not yet among the stars? Then when you had come to Troy , and the Argives were on your track, and the mortal combat had begun, whenever tidings came to you of' ¹⁰⁰¹ did you ever raise, though Castor was still alive, a vigorous youth, and his brother also, not yet among the stars? Then when you had come to Troy , and the Argives were on your track, and the mortal combat had begun, whenever tidings came to you of ¹⁰⁰⁵ Menelaus’ prowess, you would praise him, to grieve my son, because he had so powerful a rival in his love; but if the Trojans prospered, Menelaus was nothing to you. Your eye was fixed on Fortune, and by such practice you were careful to follow in her steps, careless of virtue’s cause. ¹⁰¹⁰ And then you assert that you tried to let yourself down from the towers by stealth with twisted cords, as if unwilling to stay? Where were you ever found fastening the noose about your neck, or whetting the knife, as a noble wife would have done in regret for her former husband? ¹⁰¹⁵ And yet often I advised you saying, Get away, daughter; my sons will take other brides, and I will belp you to steal away, and convey you to the Achaean fleet; oh, end the strife between us and Hellas ! But this was bitter to you. ¹⁰²⁰ For you were wantoning in Alexander’s house, wishing to have obeisance done you by barbarians. Yes, it was a proud time for you; and now after all this you have adorned yourself, and come forth and have dared to appear under the same sky as your husband, revolting wretch! ¹⁰²⁵ Better if you had come in tattered raiment, cowering humbly in terror, with hair cut short, and if your feeling for your past sins were one of shame rather than effrontery. Menelaus, hear the conclusion of my argument; ¹⁰³⁰ crown Hellas by slaying her as she deserves, and establish this law for all other women: death to every one who betrays her husband. Chorus Leader ¹²⁴² It seems the only things that heaven concerns itself about are my troubles and Troy hateful in their eyes above all other cities. In vain did we sacrifice to them. But if the god had not caught us in his grip and plunged us headlong beneath the earth, we should have been unheard of, and not ever sung in Muses’ songs, ¹²⁴⁵ furnishing to bards of after-days a subject for their minstrelsy. Go, bury now in his poor tomb the dead, wreathed all duly as befits a corpse. And yet I think it makes little difference to the dead, if they get a gorgeous funeral; ¹³²² The name of my country wiII pass into obscurity; all is scattered far and wide, and hapless Troy has ceased to be. Hecuba ' None

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hecuba

Found in books: Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 143; Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 228

7. Vergil, Aeneis, 5.613-5.615
Tagged with subjects: • Hecuba

Found in books: Joseph (2022), Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, 228; Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 248

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5.613 At procul in sola secretae Troades acta ^5.614 amissum Anchisen flebant, cunctaeque profundum ^5.615 pontum adspectabant flentes. Heu tot vada fessis'' None

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5.613 the helmet and the sword—but left behind ' "^5.614 Entellus' prize of victory, the bull. " '^5.615 He, then, elate and glorying, spoke forth: '' None

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