Hecuba (statue)
The Hecuba Statue, a bronze sculpture[1] located in the Central Piazza of USC Village at the University of Southern California. The statue honors Hecuba, the queen of Troy who was married to King Priam during the Trojan War.
Designed to serve as a female counterpart[2][3][4] to the iconic Tommy Trojan statue, the Hecuba Statue symbolizes gender equality at USC and represents the diverse community of USC students, faculty, and alumni.
History
The statue was designed by Christopher Slatoff, who also created the statue of Judge Robert Maclay Widney, the university’s founder, that stands in front of the Widney Alumni House on the south side of campus.
The statue was unveiled on August 17th, 2017 [5] [6]as the centerpiece of USC Village, a $700 million Gothic Revival style mixed-use expansion of the USC campus.
Features and Symbolism
Hecuba herself stands 12 feet tall, rising atop a pedestal that measures 9 feet tall, Hecuba is depicted extending her arm in an appeal to the USC community. The entire silica bronze sculpture weighs nearly 2 tons.
The statue's base features six female figures, each representing a different academic discipline and embodying the ethnic diversity of USC. They are joined together by a "ribbon of thought," signifying the interconnectedness of ideas and the continuous pursuit of learning.[7]
The base features two quotations from literature about Hecuba are inscribed on the pedestal; a quotation from Hamlet and a pair of lines from Euripides’ Hecuba. The two excerpts from Euripides appear in Greek. Notably, the quotation from Hamlet is attributed to “Shakespear’s Hamlet”, which the university claims was intentional to give the statue a more ‘ancient feel’.[8][9][10]
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“And all for nothing, for Hecuba! What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?”
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“Those who have power ought not exercise it wrongfully, nor when they are fortunate should they imagine that they will be so forever.”
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“Human words ought never to have more force than their doings.”
References
- ↑ "Hecuba".
- ↑ "Tommy Trojan, meet your female counterpart". Los Angeles Times. 17 August 2017.
- ↑ "Letter to the Editor: Statue of Hecuba represents the importance of female leadership". 28 November 2017.
- ↑ https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2017/08/18/usc-village-opening/#:~:text=Hecuba%2C%20a%20“new%20symbol%20of%20Troy%2C”%20unveiled%20at,of%20Hecuba%2C%20a%20female%20counterpart%20to%20Tommy%20Trojan
- ↑ "About – USC Village".
- ↑ https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2017/08/18/usc-village-opening/#:~:text=Hecuba%2C%20a%20“new%20symbol%20of%20Troy%2C”%20unveiled%20at,of%20Hecuba%2C%20a%20female%20counterpart%20to%20Tommy%20Trojan
- ↑ "Christopher Slatoff, Hecuba, University of Southern California, Los Angeles".
- ↑ "USC Misspells Shakespeare on Newly Unveiled Statue". 23 August 2017.
- ↑ "Battle of the Bards: UCLA and USC Argue over Statue's Spelling of Shakespeare". 25 August 2017.
- ↑ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/24/545817973/to-e-or-not-to-e-usc-and-ucla-quibble-over-how-to-spell-shakespear-e
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