Hecuba

By (author): "Euripides"
Genres:Fiction books  Classics books  Plays books  Drama books  Theatre books  Greece books  Mythology books  
Publish Date: -424
Hecuba
ISBN0856682373
ISBN139780856682377
AsinHecuba
CharactersOdysseus, Agamemnon, Polyxena, Hecuba
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Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation.