Greek Mythology: Hecuba

Hecuba the Queen of Troy

During the Trojan War, Queen Hecuba of Troy had a decade's long front row seat. Whether from the palace or the city ramparts, she experienced it all. I think one of the most heart-breaking things she had to do was face the fact that in saving one son, she doomed another. Hecuba's life is really a mirror of life in general: the things we seek to change, don't always bring about the intended result.  During the Trojan War era, she passes from a "mothering" figure to "crone" (classic archetypes). She's also THE queen. After the city falls, she is awarded to Odysseus as a "prize" of war and her next life begins.
     She's a pivotal figure in my Homeric Chronicles series where we fallow her from the birth of Paris through the fall of Troy in Song of Sacrifice, Rise of Princes, and the current book I'm writing called Rage of Queens. 
     Click on the video and join me in admiring Hecuba.