Introduction
Hecuba was queen of Troy, Priam's principal wife and mother to many of his fifty children, including Hector, Paris, and the prophetess Cassandra.
Family
Grief of a Fallen City
Hecuba witnessed the deaths of most of her sons during the war and the fall of Troy itself. Enslaved by the Achaeans afterward, later tradition (especially Euripides's tragedies) has her discover the murder of her youngest son Polydorus and, in vengeance, blind his killer — an act after which some versions say she was transformed into a dog.
As with all figures of Greek heroic legend, sources diverge on many particulars; the account above follows the most widely transmitted classical tradition.