Hecuba

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Hecuba is the Queen of Troy and the mother of Hector, Paris, Cassandra and among others. Hecuba is also the daughter of Dymas and wife of Priam. When Troy falls, she is given to Odysseus as a prize and has to watch as her Daughter, Polyxena, is sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles. She is also the central character in two surviving plays of Euripedes, the Hecuba, which is undated, and The Trojan Women (415 BC).