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ˈhɛk yʊ bəhecu·ba
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Hecuba
Hecuba (; 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.
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Hecuba
Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War, with whom she had 19 children. These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris and the prophetess Cassandra.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Hecuba
the wife of Priam, king of Troy; distinguished both as a wife and a mother; on the fall of the city she fell into the hands of the Greeks, and, according to one tradition, was made a slave, and, according to another, threw herself in despair into the sea.
Mythology
Hecuba
(Hec′uba). The wife of Priam, king of Troy, and mother of Paris. Taken captive in the Trojan war, she fell to the lot of Ulysses after the destruction of Troy, and was afterwards changed into a hound.
“What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?” (Shakespeare.)
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Hecuba in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Hecuba in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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