Hecuba

[ hek-yoo-buh ]

/ ˈhɛk yʊ bə /

Classical Mythology. the wife of Priam.

Example sentences from the Web for hecuba

To be or not to be,” was a favorite phrase, as was “What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba.

Hitler's Bedtime Reading |Timothy Ryback |October 17, 2008 |DAILY BEAST
All through the play Hecuba is a woman of remarkable intellectual power and of fearless thought.

The Trojan Women of Euripides |Euripides
To be sure, Hamlet's player's face turned pale for Hecuba; so Shakespeare thought acting might make one change color.

Records of a Girlhood |Frances Ann Kemble
Hecuba ridicules the idea that Hera and Artemis could desire any prize of beauty.

Authors of Greece |T. W. Lumb

I asked her who Hecuba, wife of Priam, was, and she said she'd expected I'd ask just that.

Selina |George Madden Martin
Paris was the son of Priam, king of Troy, and his wife Hecuba.

English Narrative Poems |Various

Hecuba

/ (ˈhɛkjʊbə) /

classical myth the wife of King Priam of Troy, and mother of Hector and Paris