Andromache
Family: Epirote · Role: wife of Pyrrhus and Helenus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 11
After Pyrrhus died at Delphi, Helenus married Andromache and became regent for Pyrrhus’s sons. Andromache was the mother of Molossus, Pielus, and Pergamus with Pyrrhus, and of Cestrinus with Helenus.
In Book 10, Chapter 25, Neoptolemus hurled Andromache’s baby boy from a tower, “simply from the private hatred of Neoptolemus.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Helenus married Andromache and became Regent for Pyrrhus’s sons.(Book 2 · Chapter 23 · 📍 Epirus)
- With: Helenus Pyrrhus (son of Achilles)
- “he went with Pyrrhus the son of Achilles to Epirus, and married Andromache, and was Regent for the sons of Pyrrhus”
- Andromache’s babyboy was hurled from a tower by Neoptolemus.(Book 10 · Chapter 25)
- With: Neoptolemus
- “Lescheos says that this babyboy was hurled from a tower, not in consequence of any decree of the Greeks, but simply from the private hatred of Neoptolemus.”
Book 1 · Chapter 11
- child: Cestrinus “And Helenus also had a son Cestrinus by Andromache, whom he married after the death of Pyrrhus at Delphi.”
- married with Helenus “And Helenus also had a son Cestrinus by Andromache, whom he married after the death of Pyrrhus at Delphi.”
- married with Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) “And Helenus also had a son Cestrinus by Andromache, whom he married after the death of Pyrrhus at Delphi.”
- child: Molossus “by Andromache he had Molossus and Pielus and the youngest Pergamus”
- child: Pielus “by Andromache he had Molossus and Pielus and the youngest Pergamus”
- child: Pergamus “by Andromache he had Molossus and Pielus and the youngest Pergamus”
Book 2 · Chapter 23
- married with Helenus “Helenus the son of Priam, I have already shown that he went with Pyrrhus the son of Achilles to Epirus, and married Andromache”
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