Pausanias' Description of Greece

Hecuba

Role: queen of Troy · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 12

Life events

  • Herophile foretold to Hecuba by dream what later came to pass.(Book 10 · Chapter 12)
    • With: Herophile (second)
    • “she foretold by dream to Hecuba what we know really came about.”
  • Hecuba was taken to Lycia by Apollo.(Book 10 · Chapter 27 · 📍 Lycia)
    • With: Apollo
    • “As to Hecuba, Stesichorus in his Fall of Ilium has stated that she was taken to Lycia by Apollo.”

Book 10 · Chapter 12

  • with Herophile (second) (Herophile foretold events to Hecuba in a dream.) “she foretold by dream to Hecuba what we know really came about”

Book 10 · Chapter 27

  • with Apollo (Apollo took Hecuba to Lycia.) “she was taken to Lycia by Apollo.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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