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Andromache (ăndrŏ`məkē), in Greek mythology, Trojan princess, wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax. After the Trojan War she was carried away by Neoptolemus Neoptolemus (nē'ŏptŏl`ĭməs), in Greek legend, son of Achilles. In the Trojan War he proved himself brave but cruel. ..... Click the link for more information. , whose father, Achilles, had slain her husband. She later married Hector's brother Helenus and they jointly ruled Epirus. She is a noble figure in the Iliad; Euripides and Racine wrote plays about her. Andromache devoted wife of Hector. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad; Trojan Women; Andromache; Fr. Lit.: Andromaghe] See : Faithfulness Andromache thinks only of family; rejects king’s advances. [Fr. Lit.: Andromache] See : Virtuousness |
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| Seeing, then, that she was not within, he stood on the threshold of the women's rooms and said, "Women, tell me, and tell me true, where did Andromache go when she left the house? It argues a certain hardness, or at any rate dislike of the "Iliad" on the part of the writer of the "Odyssey," that she should have adopted Hector's farewell to Andromache here, as elsewhere in the poem, for a scene of such inferior pathos. |
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