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Encyclopedia > Andromache
Andromache grieves the loss of Hector
Andromache grieves the loss of Hector

In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, sister to Podes. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... Hector brought back to Troy. ... In Greek mythology, Eetion was the father of Andromache and seven sons, including Podes who was killed by Menelaus in the Trojan War (Book 17, Iliad). ...


During the Trojan War, Hector was killed by Achilles. Their infant son Astyanax was killed by Achilles' son Neoptolemus. Neoptolemus took her as a concubine and Hector's brother, Helenus, as a slave. The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... For other uses, see Achilles (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, Astyanax (Greek for prince of the city) was the son of Hector and Andromache. ... In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus, also Neoptólemos or Pyrrhus, was the son of Achilles. ... In [[fffffffffffffffffffffffffff ...


With Hector, Andromache had a son named Astyanax. With Neoptolemus, she mothered Molossus and Olympias. In Greek mythology, Astyanax (Greek for prince of the city) was the son of Hector and Andromache. ... Molossus has several meanings: In Greek mythology, Molossus was the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache. ...


When Neoptolemus died, Andromache married Helenus, brother of Hector, and became Queen of Epirus. In [[fffffffffffffffffffffffffff ... Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the province of Sterea Ellada (Central Greece) to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and...


Homer. Iliad VI, 390-430; Apollodorus. Bibliotheke III, xii, 6; Apollodorus. Epitome V, 23; VI, 12; Euripides. Andromache; Virgil. Aeneid III,294-355. Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ... Apollodorus was a popular name in the ancient world. ... The Bibliotheke was renowned as the chief work of Greek historian and scholar. ... Apollodorus was a popular name in the ancient world. ... 1. ... Euripides (c. ... A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC–19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that... The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. ...


175 Andromache is an asteroid. 175 Andromache is a large and primitive main belt asteroid. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ...


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Andromache (170 words)
Andromache was the daughter of Eetion, ruler of the Cilician city of Thebe; she was the wife of the Trojan hero Hector and the mother of Astyanax.
Andromache's father and brothers were killed by Achilles when he captured Thebe during the Trojan War; her mother was spared and ransomed, but died in Troy before its fall.
Andromache herself became the slave and concubine of Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, when Troy was captured; her son Astyanax was flung by the Greeks from the walls of Troy.
Mythography | The Greek Heroine Andromache in Myth and Art (343 words)
In mythology, the heroine Andromache was the daughter of King Eetion of Thebe.
Andromache and her son are two of the unfortunate victims, for she is taken captive by Neoptolemus (the son of Achilles), while the baby Astyanax is thrown from the towers of Troy.
Andromache survived the horrors of the Trojan war, and as the concubine of Neoptolemus, she bore the Greek hero three sons - Molossus, Pielus, and Pergamus.
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