Hecuba in Greek mythology, queen of Troy, the wife of Priam and mother of children including Hector, Paris, Cassandra, and Troilus; after the fall of Troy and the death of Priam she became a slave.
According to a variant of the story, Helen, in widowhood, was driven out by her stepsons and fled to Rhodes, where she was hanged by the Rhodian queen Polyxo in revenge for the death of her husband, Tlepolemus, in the Trojan War.
After the fall of Troy, the surviving heroes and their troops have little chance to enjoy their victory. The gods are angry because many Greeks committed sacrilegious atrocities during the sacking of Troy. Few Greeks reach their homes easily, or live to enjoy their return.
In the distribution of the spoils after the capture of Troy, Cassandra fell to Agamemnon and was later murdered with him.
The aftermath of Troy and Cassandra's death
Once Troy had fallen, Cassandra was taken as a pallake (concubine) by King Agamemnon of Mycenae.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed for her ability to predict the future. No one listened to her. One of the consequences was the ruinous fall of Troy to the Greeks. She herself was captured, and then killed.
Thus Troy is captured; all the inhabitants are either slain or carried into slavery, and the city is destroyed. The only survivors of the royal house are Helenus, Aeneas, Hector's wife Andromache, and Cassandra, who is taken as a war prize by Agamemnon.
Ultimately, Paris was killed in action, and in Homer's account Helen was reunited with Menelaus, though other versions of the legend recount her ascending to Olympus instead. A cult associated with her developed in Hellenistic Laconia, both at Sparta and elsewhere; at Therapne she shared a shrine with Menelaus.
In the first century B.C. the Roman poet Virgil composed the “Aeneid,” the third great classical epic inspired by the Trojan War. It follows a group of Trojans led by the hero Aeneas who leave their destroyed city to travel to Carthage before founding the city of Rome.
Hecuba (/ˈhɛkjʊbə/; also Hecabe; Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη, romanized: Hekábē, pronounced [hekábɛ:]) was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War.
In her own words, Helen was merely a victim of fortune, first bewitched by Aphrodite who brought Paris to her, and then held in Troy by force. However, it is impossible for the audience to fully trust Helen, as Hecuba and Menelaus are constantly casting doubt on her claims.
After the fall of Troy, Menelaus recovered Helen and brought her home. Menelaus was a prominent figure in the Iliad and the Odyssey, where he was promised a place in Elysium after his death because he was married to a daughter of Zeus.
Paris himself, soon after, received a fatal wound from an arrow shot by the rival archer Philoctetes.
The Trojans were an ancient people who are thought to have been based in modern-day Turkey. Historians are unsure if they were descendants of Greeks or from elsewhere, most of what we know comes from Greeks written much later, such as the famous Greek writer, Homer.
The surrounding landscape contains many important archaeological and historical sites, including prehistoric settlements and cemeteries, Hellenistic burial mounds, monumental tumuli, Greek and Roman settlements, Roman and Ottoman bridges and numerous monuments of the Battle of Gallipoli.
As was customary by the laws of hospitality in ancient Greece, they gave him lodging and entertained him with banquets and gifts. Paris and Helen fell madly in love from the moment they met. Helen escaped with Paris and together they went to Troy. Some said the Trojan prince had kidnapped her.
Menelaus had meant to kill Helen because she had deserted him. When he saw her again, however, he was overcome by her beauty and forgave her. After the Greek victory Menelaus and Helen returned to Sparta, where they lived happily until their deaths.
Laurie Macguire, writing in "Helen of Troy From Homer to Hollywood," lists the following 11 men as husbands of Helen in ancient literature, proceeding from the canonical list in chronological order, to the 5 exceptional ones: Theseus. Menelaus. Paris.
The more common version, however, made Aeneas the leader of the Trojan survivors after Troy was taken by the Greeks. In any case, Aeneas survived the war, and his figure was thus available to compilers of Roman myth.
Hera is furious and demands Zeus not let the battle end until Troy is in ruins. Wishing to keep the peace with Hera, Zeus agrees, and has Athena cause the Trojans to restart the war. He agrees to let Troy fall so he does not face an uprising on Mount Olympus.
After the events of the Iliad, when the Greeks finally sack the city of Troy, Hector's son Astyanax is thrown from the walls the city. Andromache becomes the concubine of the man who kills Astyanax: Neoptolemus, Achilles' son.
The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", "curse") relates to a person whose valid warnings or concerns are disbelieved by others.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed to be ignored. There really wasn't anything she could do to get people to believe her. For the Cassandras in our own midst, the curse is even more terrible.
Paris is considered to be a coward in Troy. This is because he is hiding away from it all for a lot of the battle while his people are fighting because of him.
Did Achilles have a male lover? As a boy, Achilles develops a close relationship with another boy named Patroclus, who joins Achilles' household as an exile, having accidentally killed another child. They become friends and possibly lovers.