person
Hecuba
also: Ἑκάβη
Priam's queen and Hector's mother, whose grief for her sons — especially Hector — is one of the poem's central griefs.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §6.286 Hecuba
Priam's queen and Hector's mother; her grief for her sons, and especially her plea to Hector not to face Achilles in Book 22, voice the war's cost from inside the city.