Astyanax

Mortal man

In Greek mythology, Astyanax (; Ancient Greek: Ἀστυάναξ Astyánax, "king of the city" coming from the ancient greek words "ἄστυ" meaning city and "ἄναξ" meaning wanax or king) was the son of Hector, the crown prince of Troy, and of his wife, Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe.

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Mentions: 10
Connected characters: 2
Books: 3

Andromache Mourning Hector — Astyanax · Jacques-Louis DavidImage source Public domain

Mentions in the Iliad

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A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“For I shall go to my home, that I may behold my housefolk, my dear wife, and my infant son; for I know not if any more I shall return home to them again, or if even now the gods will slay me beneath the hands of the Achaeans. So saying, Hector of the flashing helm departed,”

Il. 6.365–369

“fair-tressed Trojan women are seeking to propitiate the dread goddess; but she went to the great wall of Ilios, for that she heard the Trojans were sorely pressed, and great victory rested with the Achaeans. So is she gone in haste to the wall, like one beside herself; and with her the nurse beareth the child.”

Il. 6.385–389

“the tender boy, a mere babe, the well-loved son of Hector, like to a fair star. Him Hector was wont to call Scamandrius, but other men Astyanax; for only Hector guarded Ilios. Then Hector smiled, as he glanced at his boy in silence,”

Il. 6.400–404

“thou art brother, and thou art my stalwart husband. Come now, have pity, and remain here on the wall, lest thou make thy child an orphan and thy wife a widow. And for thy host, stay it by the wild fig-tree, where the city may best be scaled, and the wall is open to assault.”

Il. 6.430–434

“ere I hear thy cries as they hale thee into captivity. So saying, glorious Hector stretched out his arms to his boy, but back into the bosom of his fair-girdled nurse shrank the child crying, affrighted at the aspect of his dear father, and seized with dread of the bronze and the crest of horse-hair,”

Il. 6.465–469

“and may he bear the blood-stained spoils of the foeman he hath slain, and may his mother's heart wax glad. So saying, he laid his child in his dear wife's arms, and she took him to her fragrant bosom, smiling through her tears; and her husband was touched with pity at sight of her,”

Il. 6.480–484

“in the house of Eetion, who reared me when I was a babe, hapless father of a cruel-fated child; would God he had never begotten me. Now thou unto the house of Hades beneath the deeps of earth art departing, but me thou leavest in bitter grief, a widow in thy halls,”

Il. 22.480–484

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HectorMortal man

Father

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For I shall go to my home, that I may behold my housefolk, my dear wife, and my infant son; for I know not if any more I shall return home to them again, or if even now the gods will slay me beneath the hands of the Achaeans. So saying, Hector of the flashing helm departed,

Il. 6.366

the tender boy, a mere babe, the well-loved son of Hector, like to a fair star. Him Hector was wont to call Scamandrius, but other men Astyanax; for only Hector guarded Ilios. Then Hector smiled, as he glanced at his boy in silence,

Il. 6.400–401

the tender boy, a mere babe, the well-loved son of Hector, like to a fair star. Him Hector was wont to call Scamandrius, but other men Astyanax; for only Hector guarded Ilios. Then Hector smiled, as he glanced at his boy in silence,

Il. 6.404

Il. 6.366 · Il. 6.400–401 · Il. 6.404 · Il. 6.431–432 · Il. 6.466 · Il. 6.483 · Il. 22.484 · Il. 22.505–506 · Il. 24.36 · Il. 24.727

AndromacheMortal woman

Mother

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and came speedily to his well-built house. But he found not white-armed Andromache in his halls; she with her child and a fair-robed handmaiden had taken her stand upon the wall, weeping and wailing. So Hector when he found not his peerless wife within,

Il. 6.371–372

the tender boy, a mere babe, the well-loved son of Hector, like to a fair star. Him Hector was wont to call Scamandrius, but other men Astyanax; for only Hector guarded Ilios. Then Hector smiled, as he glanced at his boy in silence,

Il. 6.400–401

but Andromache came close to his side weeping, and clasped his hand and spake to him, saying: Ah, my husband, this prowess of thine will be thy doom, neither hast thou any pity for thine infant child nor for hapless me that soon shall be thy widow; for soon will the Achaeans

Il. 6.407–408

Il. 6.371–372 · Il. 6.400–401 · Il. 6.407–408 · Il. 6.431–432 · Il. 6.471 · Il. 6.483 · Il. 22.484 · Il. 22.499 · Il. 24.727

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Andromache Mourning HectorJacques-Louis David · 1782Department of Paintings of the LouvreInv. DL 1969-1

Jacques-Louis David. Andromache Mourning Hector (The Sorrow of Andromache) by Jacques-Louis David, 1783, Pushkin Museum. собрание не указано. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAndromache_Mourning_Hector_%28The_Sorrow_of_Andromache%29_by_Jacques-Louis_David%2C_1783%2C_Pushkin_Museum.JPG

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Photograph / reproduction date: 1783

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