Hecuba

Hecuba, the queen of Troy, becomes a slave and must live among the common women in the POW camp. She loses everything: her husband, her position, her home, even some of her children. I found Hecuba particularly moving because of her deep concern for the fate of her children. Her character prompted me to think about women in our world today who lose…

achieved in a more complete form. Similar to this Hecuba although lacks such a strong hold over the characters around her she acts as the mother figure and is garnered with great respect. Her advice, although lacking the power to stop Priam from undertaking his journey, is held with great importance for the King. His opinion will not change his but it may mould to a form similar to hers. As the advisors and princes look to her searching for answers, Hecuba can be seen as more than a woman but…

Odysseus is a greeks who made it back to his home. Odysseus was fated to wander the longest twenty years. Among the Trojan women Hecuba fell to him, an old harridan now who could not forgive the way Odysseus had thrown her grandson Astyanax from the walls of Troy. Odysseus' ships were hit by the storm raised by Athena and were blown to Thrace. Sick of Hecuba's insults, he and his men stoned her to death. In Thrace Odysseus sacked the city of the Cicones, sparing only a priest of Apollo, who…

Hector’s farewell to his wife and son is arguably the most tragic scene in Homer’s Iliad. Towards the end of book 6, the warrior takes a swift break from the battlefield as he makes special visitations to Hecuba, Paris, and Andromache in the city of Troy. Hector finds Andromache cradling his child, and prays to the gods that he lives a successful and fulfilling life. The meaning of this seemingly innocent scene is that it is portrayed amidst the bloodshed and brutality of the Iliad.…

Long before the events that sparked the Trojan War, when Priam and Hecuba born Paris, Paris was fated to be the downfall of Troy. In an attempt to avoid that disaster by sending off Paris, the royal couple unwittingly sealed their fate, for it was Paris’ shepherd-hood that placed him in the position of giving the golden apple. Although Priam and Hecuba most likely understood the confines of fate, they did not lie submissively by allowing the future downfall…

Shakespeare draws on the stage metaphor, an ancient idea stretching back to the time of Pythagoras, and incorporates this comparison of the real world and the world of theatre into a number of his plays. In Hamlet, he uses the concept of metatheatre to emphasise on the theme as well as to create and use a forceful instrument that forcefully thrusts the current situation into the next set of events. He creates an illusion within an illusion which has a profound impact on reality as the play…

Why Every OSU Freshman Should Read the Odyssey by Valerie Lin & The motto of OSU is Disciplina in Civitatem, “Education for Citizenship”, meaning the goal of the university is to teach the students to become better citizens. All students could be benefited from all three works: the Odyssey, the Trojan Women, the Iliad. However, from reading Homer’s Odyssey, the students can learn something that could benefit them for their lifetime; it teaches the students about the importance of having hope,…

People can most often be put into boxes: a man is good or bad, smart or dumb, handsome or ugly; but while a person can have a tendency to lean in one direction, nothing ever works out to black or white. The same theory can be applied to characters of fiction, such as Hamlet from Hamlet, although because he is a fictional human his actions can be interpreted differently by different people. One opinion displays Hamlet’s actions and ideas of those of an entitled man of thought must fulfill the…

The Epic Hero Achilles Son of Peleus and Thetis was the future talented hero named Achilles. Hector was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. These two heroes Achilles of Greece and Hector of Troy became great warriors and were admired by almost everyone in their region. Both of them have epic hero characteristics, however Achilles is a greater epic hero because he is glorified by the Greeks, he has superior fighting skills compared to the average warrior, he is also a responsible leader.…

The rage are the first words in book one of Homer’s Iliad, which is appropriately titled “The Rage of Achilles”. Rage makes up the theme of the Iliad and guides the path in which the epic follows. In the Iliad, there are specific instances in which Achilles’ shows himself to be selfish and immoral when he is angry. Two specific instances occur when Achilles refuses to fight in the war, and when he mistreats Hector’s body. Achilles’ selfish and immoral rage begins after Agamemnon demands that…