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Euripides: Hecuba

With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by C. Collard

Hecuba, in slavery after Troy's fall, fails to dissuade Odysseus, whose life she once saved, from sacrificing her daughter to honour his dead friend, Achilles; but the girl dies proudly, true to her royal blood in surmounting degradation. Then Hecuba learns of her sons' treacherous murder by a former ally; out of her terrible loss comes determination for revenge, which she claims as a right but how just is her horrific cruelty? How credible against her earlier characterisation? The play has striking effects: the ghost of the murdered son, and his murderer subsequently blinded; poignant lyricism; vivid narratives; above all, a careful pattern of scenes demonstrating the equivocal power of 'Persuasion, man's only sovereign' (v.816). Hecuba is both a study of resilience and weakness, and a typically Euripidean comment on the uncertain, even collapsing, values of his time. Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1991)

Table of contents

General introduction to the series (by Shirley Barlow)
Introduction to Hecuba
Manuscripts
Apparatus criticus
Parallel Greek text and English translation
Commentary

Biographical note

Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor at University of Swansea, the General Editor of this series of Euripides plays and the Series Editor of the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts.

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