white-armed Andromache
Hector‘s wife. Her farewell to Hector at the Scaean Gate, holding their baby son Astyanax, is one of the best-known scenes in the Iliad.
From Thebe and Lyrnessus. Today: near Edremit, Turkey.
Strength 2/10 · Wisdom 7/10 · Courage 8/10 · Divinity 1/10 · Fame 7/10
The story
Daughter of the king of Thebe near Troy. Achilles killed her father and seven brothers when he sacked her city, so Hector was everything to her: “father, mother, brother and husband”.
How it ends
After Troy fell her young son Astyanax was killed and she was taken to Greece as a captive. Later she married Hector‘s brother Helenus.
Still with us today
Racine’s tragedy Andromaque (1667) is a classic of French theatre.
Family
- Partners: Hector, Helenus, Neoptolemus
- Children: Astyanax
Appears in
Read about them in the Library
- Iliad 6: Hector and Andromache
- Iliad 22: The death of Hector
- Iliad 24: Priam and Achilles
- Aeneid 3: The years of wandering
Ancient sources
- Homer, Iliad
- Euripides (tragedies)
- Virgil, Aeneid
Andromache is a playable card in MythoTroy, the Trojan War card game.