Andromache

Family: Trojans · First appears: The Little Iliad

In The Little Iliad, after Hector’s death, the Achaean chiefs give Andromache, Hector’s wife, to Neoptolemus. The poem also recounts that Astyanax is snatched from the bosom of his nurse.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Achaean chiefs give Andromache to Neoptolemus.(The Little Iliad)
  • With: Neoptolemus
  • “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.”

The Little Iliad

• married with Hector “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”

Also listed in Trojans — Minor Figures

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