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Euripides: Hecuba
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Focus Item #: 01486
Author(s): Robin Mitchell-Boyask
ISBN: 978-1-58510-148-1
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Description
Euripides Hecuba
is one of the few tragedies that evoke a sense of utter desolation and
destruction in the audience. The drama focuses on the status of women, those
who are out of power and at the margins of society, by enacting the sufferings
of Hecuba. With the city of
Troy
fallen, Hecuba and Polyxena, her daughter, are enslaved to Agamemnon. Hecuba is
despondent with the news that Polyxena is chosen to be sacrificed at the tomb
of Achilles. After the sacrifice, the body of her son Polydorus, already a
ghost at the start of the drama, is discovered. Polymestor, a king in
Thrace who
Hecuba sent Polydorus to for safety reasons, murdered Polydorus for his gold.
With the tacit complicity of Agamemnon, Hecuba plots her revenge against Polymestor.
What transpires next has lasting implications for all involved, including a
dramatic trial scene and Hecubas ultimate metamorphosis.
About the Author
Robin
Mitchell-Boyask is Associate Professor of Classics at
Temple
University
and has been a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies and a Visiting
Fellow at
Wolfson
College,
Cambridge
University. He has
published numerous articles on Greek and Latin literature as well as Approaches
to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides (MLA 2002). He is currently completing a
book on the plague of
Athens
and Greek drama.
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