Hecuba | 
pickHecuba was just tragic from start to finish, with anguish visited upon Hecuba that certainly seems more like a person can bear, & that is the heart of the philosophical question in this play & in most Greek tragedies: how much can a person bear, why do people have to bear it, etc. There's also an angry aside about the gods causing destruction so that they can remain relevant (!). Hecuba herself is a fascinating character & dare I say it, bad ass.
batsy The chorus of angry women was genuinely quite chilling & the way Hecuba & her band of women take revenge on Polymestor for the murder of her son Polydorus is kind of seared into my mind. I mean it's obviously blood & violence, the stuff of tragedy, but the way the violence unfolded had me 😩 (I read the translation by William Arrowsmith.) 2y
batsy Image: "Hecuba Blinding Polymestor", Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) 2y
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