Andromaque

Andromaque (in Greek old Ἀνδρομάχη / Andromákhê ), girl of Éétion, king of Cilicie, was the woman of Hector. Deprived of her husband, killed in singular combat by Achilles, she sees soon reduced of ashes the town of Troy, whose Hector was the principal support. She is given to the son of her murderer, Néoptolème, which takes it along in Épire and marries it.

She has for third husband Hélénos, brother of its first husband, and become king d' Épire. Although gone up with him on the throne, it remains filled up of sadness, not being able to forget Hector to which it makes build a splendid monument.

Of its first husband, it had Astyanax; she had Molossos, Piélos and Pergamos of the second, and Cestrinos of the last.

One quotes Andromaque like the model of the wives and the mothers. Its character and its misfortunes inspired by large poets, for example Euripide, Virgile, Racine, after Homère.

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