Astyanax

Also known as: Scamandrius · Family: Trojans · Role: son of Hector · First appears: BOOK VI

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Astyanax) · The Aeneid (as Astyanax) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Astyanax)

Life events

• Hector’s death leaves Astyanax fatherless and vulnerable to hardship.(BOOK XXII · 📍 Troy)
  • With: Hector
  • “The child, of whom you and I are the unhappy parents, is as yet a mere infant. Now that you are gone, O Hector, you can do nothing for him nor he for you.”

BOOK VI

• parent: Hector (Hector is Scamandrius's father.) “Hector’s darling son, and lovely as a star. Hector had named him Scamandrius, but the people called him Astyanax”
• parent: Andromache (Scamandrius is the child of Andromache and Hector in the surrounding passage.) “think on your infant son, and on my hapless self who ere long shall be your widow”

BOOK XXII

• parent: Hector “The child, of whom you and I are the unhappy parents, is as yet a mere infant”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.