Andromache

Also known as: daughter of great Eetion · Family: Trojans · Role: wife of Hector · First appears: BOOK VI

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

BOOK VI

• parent: Eetion (Eetion is Andromache's father.) “his wife came running towards him, Andromache, daughter of great Eetion”
• married with Hector (Hector and Andromache are married.) “His daughter had married Hector”
• child: Astyanax (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”
• with Achilles (Achilles killed Andromache's father.) “Achilles slew my father when he sacked Thebe the goodly city of the Cilicians.”

BOOK VIII

• parent: Eetion “Andromache daughter of great Eetion”
• married with Hector “before doing so even for me who am her own husband”

BOOK XXIV

• married with Hector ““Husband,” she cried, “you have died young, and leave me in your house a widow;”

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