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Astyanax

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Astyanax (əstī`ənăks), in Greek mythology, son of Hector and Andromache. When the Greeks captured Troy, they killed him out of fear that he would avenge his father and his city. He was also known as Scamandrius.
Astyanax
Hector’s infant son, thrown from the walls of Troy by the Greeks. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 289]
See : Infanticide
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So when he had fallen bloody death and hard fate seized on Astyanax.
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Hector had named him Scamandrius, but the people called him Astyanax, for his father stood alone as chief guardian of Ilius.
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