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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 975 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDROMACHE , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, the daughter of Eetion, See also:prince of Thebe in See also:Mysia, and wife of See also:Hector. Her See also:father and seven See also:brothers See also:fell by the hands of See also:Achilles when their See also:town was taken by him; her See also:mother, ransomed at a high See also:price, was slain by See also:Artemis (Iliad, vi. 414). During the Trojan See also:War her See also:husband was slain by Achilles, and after the See also:capture of the See also:city her son Astyanax (or Scamandrius) was hurled from the battlements (Eurip. Troades, 720). When the captives were allotted, Andromache fell to See also:Neoptolemus (See also:Pyrrhus), the son of Achilles, whom she accompanied to See also:Epirus, and to whom she See also:bore three sons. When Neoptolemus was slain at See also:Delphi, he See also:left his wife and See also:kingdom to See also:Helenus, the See also:brother of Hector (See also:Virgil, Aen. iii. 294). After the See also:death of her third husband, Andromache returned to See also:Asia See also:Minor with her youngest son Pergamus, who there founded a town named after himself. Andromache is one of the finest characters in See also:Homer, distinguished by her See also:affection for her husband and See also:child, her misfortunes and the resignation withwhich she endures them. The death of Astyanax, and the farewell See also:scene between Andromache and Hector (Iliad, vi. 323), were represented in See also:ancient See also:works of See also:art, while Andromache herself is the subject of tragedies by See also:Euripides and See also:Racine.

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