Andromache

Andromache, the wife of Hector, was the daughter of Eëtion, king of the Cilician Thebes, and is one of the finest female figures in Homer's Iliad. During her childhood, Achilles slew her father and her seven brothers. By Hector she had a son, Scamandrius (Astyanax). Her love of her husband is pathetically depicted in her address to the hero on his going to his last battle, and her lamentation over his death. After the fall of Troy, she was given into the hands of Pyrrhus (son of Achilles), who took her away to Epirus, but afterwards surrendered her to Helenus (Hector's brother), by whom she had a son named Cestrinus. Andromache is the heroine of one of the tragedies of Euripides.