- Andromache – Mythopedia
Andromache, daughter of King Eetion of Cilician Thebes, was the wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax A devoted wife and mother, she lost her husband and son in the Trojan War, after which she herself was taken to Greece as a captive
- Astyanax – Mythopedia
Astyanax (also called Scamandrius) was the son of Hector and Andromache, a prince and princess of Troy During the sack of Troy, Astyanax—still a small child—was viciously killed by either Neoptolemus or Odysseus, who hurled him from the city walls
- Hector – Mythopedia
Hector married Andromache, a princess from the neighboring kingdom of Thebes (not to be confused with the more famous Thebes in Greece) Together they had a son named either Astyanax or Scamandrius (according to Homer, Scamandrius was the child’s given name, while Astyanax, “lord of the city,” was the popular name used by the people of
- Alcestis (Play) – Mythopedia
The Alcestis is the earliest of Euripides’ surviving plays, staged in 438 BCE It tells the story of Alcestis, a brave queen of Thessaly who volunteered to die in order to save her husband Admetus
- Iliad: Book 6 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Argument The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache The gods having left the field, the Grecians prevail Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight The battle relaxing during the absence of
- Iliad – Mythopedia
The Iliad, said to have been composed by Homer, is an epic poem that was probably originally put into writing during the middle of the eighth century BCE Set during the famous Trojan War, the poem describes the events following a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon
- Aeneid: Book 3 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Here wondrous things were loudly blaz’d fame: How Helenus reviv’d the Trojan name, And reign’d in Greece; that Priam’s captive son Succeeded Pyrrhus in his bed and throne; And fair Andromache, restor’d by fate, Once more was happy in a Trojan mate
- Aeneas – Mythopedia
Aeneas was a Trojan hero who bravely fought the Greeks during the Trojan War After the war, he settled in the West, where he became the ancestor of the Romans
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