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HECUBA (Gr. `Exa(3n)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 196 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HECUBA (Gr. `Exa(3n)  , wife of See also:Priam, daughter of the Phrygian See also:king Dymas (or of Cisseus, or of the See also:river-See also:god Sangarius) . According to See also:Homer she was the See also:mother of nineteen of Priam's fifty sons . When See also:Troy was captured and Priam slain, she was made prisoner by the Greeks . Her See also:fate is told in various ways, \most of which connect her with the promontory Cynossema, on the Thracian See also:shore of the See also:Hellespont . According to See also:Euripides (in the See also:Hecuba), her youngest son Polydorus had been placed during the See also:siege of Troy under the care of Polymestor, king of See also:Thrace . When the Greeks reached the Thracian See also:Chersonese on their way See also:home Hecuba discovered that her son had been murdered; and in revenge put out the eyes of Polymestor and murdered his two sons . She was acquitted by See also:Agamemnon; but, as Polymestor foretold, she was turned into a See also:dog, and her See also:grave became a See also:mark for See also:ships (See also:Ovid, Metam. xiii . 399-575; See also:Juvenal x . 271 and See also:Mayor's See also:note) . According to another See also:story, she See also:fell to the See also:lot of See also:Odysseus, as a slave, and in despair threw herself into the Hellespont; or, she used such insulting See also:language towards her captors that they put her to See also:death (Dictys Cretensis v . 13 . 16) .

It is obvious from the tales of Hecuba's trans-formation and death that she is a See also:

form of some goddess to whom See also:dogs were sacred; and the See also:analogy with Scylla is striking .

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