The wife of King Priam, and therefore the Queen of Troy, during the Trojan War. Her children included Paris - who kidnapped Helen - and Hector, the great Trojan warrior who was slain by Achilles. In Book VI of the Iliad, she leads the Trojan women in prayer to Zeus on behalf of the Trojan warriors. After the war, Hecuba was grief-stricken upon learning of the death of her youngest daughter Polyxena, and she was given to Odysseus as a slave.