1 Hecuba, seeing him so beautiful and knowing him to be her son, wept for joy and forgot all about the prophecy7) that he would ruin Troy.

2 Hecuba He cuba's life was one of grief and sorrow.

3 King Priam was killed. Queen Hecuba, her daughter Cassandra and her daughter-in-law Andromache were all carried into slavery.

4 Trojan prince, the eldest son of Priam and Hecuba, killed by Achilles in Homer's Iliad.

5 At his birth his mother Queen Hecuba dreamed of holding a piece of burning wood.

6 The bad woman took out them to Hecuba, the queen of troy, at whose feet Odysseus immediately bowed down and asked for mercy.