Hecate

Family: Gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 5

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 1

• parent: Leto “O awful daughter of Latona, Hecate”

Euripides, Medea — Scene 3

• with Medea (Medea identifies Hecate as her chosen assistant.) “For never, I swear by my mistress whom I revere most of all, and have chosen for my assistant, Hecate, who dwells in the inmost recesses of my house, shall any one of them wring my heart with grief with impunity.”

Euripides, Hippolytus — Scene 2

• with Phaedra (Hecate is named as a possible divine cause of Phaedra's madness.) “For heaven-possessed, O lady, or whether by Pan, or by Hecate, or by the venerable Corybantes, or by the mother who haunts the mountains, thou art raving.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.