Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. The play is meant to take place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the loss of a daughter, and the revenge she takes over the loss of a son. Taking place near the same time is The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides. This play has also been mentioned in the second act of Hamlet by Shakespeare.

Chorus

• Captive Trojan Women
  

Characters

• Ghost of Polydorus
  
• Hecuba
  
• Polyxena
  
• Odysseus
  
• Talthybius
  
• Maid
  
• Agamemnon
  
• Polymestor, and his children
  

Setting

• Greek camp upon the shore of the Thracian Chersonese
  
  

Translations

• Edward P. Coleridge, 1891 - prose: full text
  
• Arthur S. Way, 1912 - verse
  
• J. T. Sheppard, 1927 - verse
  
• Hugh O. Meredith, 1937 - verse
  
• William Arrowsmith, 1958 - verse
  
• Philip Vellacott, 1963 - verse
  

	Plays by Euripides
Cyclops | Alcestis | Medea | Heracleidae | Hippolytus | Andromache | Hecuba | The Suppliants | Electra | Heracles | The Trojan Women | Iphigeneia in Tauris | Ion | Helen | Phoenician Women | Orestes | Bacchae | Iphigeneia at Aulis | Rhesus (spurious)