Editing Hecuba (section)

==In popular culture==
Hecuba is frequently referenced in classical literature, and in many medieval, Renaissance, and modern works. Among the works which are about Hecuba are:

* ''[[Hecuba (play)|Hecuba]]'' and ''[[The Trojan Women]]'', plays by [[Euripides]]
* ''[[Troades (Seneca)|Troades]]'', tragedy by [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]].
* ''[[The Trojan War Will Not Take Place]]'', play by [[Jean Giraudoux]]
* ''[[King Priam]]'', novel by [[David Park (novelist)|David Park]]
* ''All For Hecuba'' (1947) an autobiography of [[Micheál Mac Liammóir]] 
* ''Cortege of Eagles'' (1967), ballet by [[Martha Graham]]
* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' (1967), TV series, Ep.72; to impress brash movie producer Harold Hecuba ([[Phil Silvers]]), who has crash landed on their island, the castaways perform their own musical parody version of Shakespeare's ''[[Hamlet]]''.
* ''[[Passions]]'' (2000), [[soap opera]] featuring a character named Hecuba, played by [[Robin Strasser]], who is a supernatural antagonist to the town’s resident witch 
* ''[[Trojan Barbie]]'' (2006), play by Christine Evans
* Originally scripted for a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' script, Hecuba was intended to be ''[[The Celestial Toymaker]]'''s sister in the unmade Season 5 story The Queen of Time, this was turned to a ''[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]'' audio story.  
* ''[[The House of Hades]]'' (2013) and ''[[Wrath of the Triple Goddess]]'' (2024), novels by [[Rick Riordan]]
* ''[[Troy: Fall of a City]]'' (2018) a [[miniseries]] in which Hecuba is portrayed by [[Frances O'Connor]]
* ''[[Bluey (TV series)|Bluey]]'' (2020) episode 2, season 2 "[[Hammerbarn]]", Hecuba features as Bingo's gnome husband

Hecuba is also referenced in other works:

* In ''[[Hamlet]]'', a play by William [[Shakespeare]]. In Act 2, scene 2, the character Hamlet marvels at the skill of an actor he has just watched perform a monologue about Hecuba witnessing Priam's death with convincing grief:  "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, / That he should weep for her?"  Hamlet criticizes himself for grieving his father less authentically than the actor does on behalf of the imaginary Hecuba and Priam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/hamlet-the-play-within-the-play|title=Hamlet: the play within the play|website=The British Library|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref>
* In Fortune Plango Vulnera (I Bemoan The Wounds Of Fortune), from the 13th C Latin and Goliardic poetry collection ''[[Carmina Burana]]'', which was set to  music in the movement Fate Imperatrix Mundi of ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis]]'' by [[Carl Orff]], Hecuba is mentioned as an exemplar of those thrown down by fate and a warning: "Nam sub axe legimus, Hecubam reginam." (For beneath the axle is written, queen Hecuba)
* In [[Edith Wharton]]’s ''[[The Custom of the Country]]'', she describes Mrs. Spragg as "gaz[ing] after [Undine and Mr. Spragg] with the pale stare of Hecuba."