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Jacques-Louis David- Andromache Mourning Hector
Andromache with her son and the dead Hector

Andromache is a person in Greek mythology. She is the wife of Hector of Troy and mother of Astyanax.

After the Trojan War, Neoptolemus took her and Helenus as slaves. Of Neoptolemus she had a child named Molossus. After Neoptolemus died, Andromache married Helenus, and became Queen of Epirus.

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  • Andromache mourns Hector

    Andromache Mourning Hector by Jacques-Louis David, 1783

  • Leighton Captive Andromache

    Andromache in Captivity by Frederic Leighton (c. 1886)

  • Trojan Women - Andromache

    Aomawa Baker (Andromache) in Euripides' The Trojan Women, directed by Brad Mays at the ARK Theatre Company in Los Angeles, 2003

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