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See also:HECUBA (Gr. `Exa(3n) , wife of See also:Priam, daughter of the Phrygian See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king Dymas (or of Cisseus, or of the See also:river-See also:god Sangarius). According to See also:Homer she was the See also:mother of nineteen of Priam's fifty sons. When See also:Troy was captured and Priam slain, she was made prisoner by the Greeks. Her See also:fate is told in various ways, \most of which connect her with the promontory Cynossema, on the Thracian See also:shore of the See also:Hellespont. According to See also:Euripides (in the Hecuba), her youngest son Polydorus had been placed during the See also:siege of Troy under the care of Polymestor, king of See also:Thrace. When the Greeks reached the Thracian See also:Chersonese on their way See also:home Hecuba discovered that her son had been murdered; and in revenge put out the eyes of Polymestor and murdered his two sons. She was acquitted by See also:Agamemnon; but, as Polymestor foretold, she was turned into a See also:dog, and her See also:grave became a See also:mark for See also:ships (See also:Ovid, Metam. xiii. 399-575; See also:Juvenal x. 271 and See also:Mayor's See also:note). According to another See also:story, she See also:fell to the See also:lot of See also:Odysseus, as a slave, and in despair threw herself into the Hellespont; or, she used such insulting See also:language towards her captors that they put her to See also:death (Dictys Cretensis v. 13. 16). It is obvious from the tales of Hecuba's trans-formation and death that she is a See also:form of some goddess to whom See also:dogs were sacred; and the See also:analogy with Scylla is striking.
End of Article: HECUBA (Gr. `Exa(3n)
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