Astyănax

, a son of Hector and And rom ache. He was very young when the Greeks besieged Troy; and when the city was taken, his mother saved him in her arms from the flames. Uly es, who was afraid lest the young prince should inherit the virtues of his father, and one day avenge the ruin of his country upon the Greeks, seized him, and threw him down from the walls of Troy. According to Euripi des, he was killed by Menelaus; and Seneca says that Pyrrhus the son of Achilles put him to death. Hector had given him the name of Scamandrius; but the Trojans, who hoped he might prove as great as his father, called him Astyanax, or the bulwark of the city. Homer , Iliad , bk. 6 , li. 400 ; bk. 22 , li. 500 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 2 , li. 457 ; bk. 3 , li. 489 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 13 , li. 415 .――An Arcadian, who had a statue in the temple of Jupiter, on mount Lyceus. Pausanias , bk. 8 , ch. 38 .――A son of Hercules. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .――A writer in the age of Gallienus.