Hecuba: Paradigm of the Always Painful Old Age
paradigma da sempre dolorosa velhice
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https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-3425.2023v8n15p36-46Keywords:
Iliad, Euripides, Trojan women, HecubaAbstract
When we think, in the context of Greek Antiquity, of paradigms of old age in a feminine version, the most emblematic figure is undoubtedly Hecuba, Queen of Troy. Greek Literature, as a whole, has produced a portrait of this figure which is thickened in two major stages. The visibility given to her by the epic, taking the Iliad as testimony, is still that of a powerful sovereign, who enjoys prestige with her husband and children, and the respect and sympathy of her people, namely the women who surround her life in the palace. In turn, the tragedy is mainly set in the post-war period, giving great prominence to the women of Troy, who survived the war only to fall into the hands of the enemy and become the main victims of the conflict. Several of these women became the pattern of the violence of war. But none of them gathered, like Hecuba, the height of female suffering: as an example of all the losses, ápais, ánandros, ápolis (deprived of children, of husband, of city), at a time when advanced age unprevented her from resistance.
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