Hector

Family: Trojans · First appears: The Little Iliad

In The Little Iliad, Hector is described as Andromache’s husband; after his death, Neoptolemus chooses her as his prize. Their son Astyanax is snatched from his nurse and cast from a tower.

Relationship record

The Little Iliad

• married with Andromache “And Neoptolemus chose out Andromache, Hector’s well-girded wife, and the chiefs of all the Achaeans gave her to him to hold requiting him with a welcome prize.”
• child: Astyanax “but her son he snatched from the bosom of his rich-haired nurse and seized him by the foot and cast him from a tower.”

Also listed in Trojans — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.