Andrŏmăche

, a daughter of Eetion king of Thebes in Cilicia, married Hector son of Priam king of Troy, by whom she had Astyanax. She was so fond of her husband, that she even fed his horses with her own hand. During the Trojan war she remained at home employed in her domestic concerns. Her parting with Hector, who was going to a battle, in which he perished, has always been deemed the best, most tender and pathetic of all the pa ages in Homer’s Iliad. She received the news of her husband’s death with extreme sorrow; and after the taking of Troy, she had the misfortune to see her only son Astyanax, after she had saved him from the flames, thrown headlong from the walls of the city, by the hands of the man whose father had killed her husband. Seneca , Troades . And rom ache, in the division of the prisoners by the Greeks, fell to the share of Neoptolemus, who treated her as his wife, and carried her to Epirus. He had by her three sons, Molo us, Piclus, and Pergamus, and afterwards repudiated her. After this divorce she married Helenus son of Priam, who, as herself, was a captive of Pyrrhus. She reigned with him over part of the country, and became mother by him of Cestrinus. Some say that Astyanax was killed by Uly es, and Euripi des says that Menelaus put him to death. Homer , Iliad , bks. 6, 22, & 24.— Quintus Calaber [Smyrnæus] , bk. 1 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 486 .— Hyginus , fable 123.— Dares Phrygius. — Ovid , Amores , bk. 1 , poem 9, li. 35 ; Tristia , bk. 5 , poem 6, li. 43 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 12 .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 11 .