n. Greek Mythology
The wife of Hector, captured by the Greeks at the fall of Troy.
Andromache
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1. (Andromaca) (Rossini: Ermione). Mezzo-Soprano. Widow of the murdered Hector and mother of his son, Astynax. She is bribed into marriage with Pyrrhus (husband of Hermione). Created (1819) by Rosmunda Pisaroni.
2. (Tippett: King Priam). Soprano. Daughter of the King of Thebes, she becomes Hector's wife. After Hector is killed she is captured and married to Achilles' son Neoptolemus (also called Pyrrhus - see (1)). Created (1962) by Josephine Veasey.
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Andromachē, in Greek myth, daughter of Ēětiōn king of Thēbē in Cilicia, and wife of Hector. Her father and brothers were killed by Achilles, her mother taken prisoner and ransomed. Her son Astyanax was put to death by the Greeks after the fall of Troy (see TROJAN WOMEN) and she herself fell to the lot of Neoptolemus to whom she bore three sons, Molossus (eponym of the Molossians), Pielus, and Pergamus (named after the citadel of Troy). The conflict between her and Hermione, the jealous, childless wife of Neoptolemus, is the theme of Euripides' play Andromache. After Neoptolemus' death she married the Trojan seer Helenus, a son of Priam, and lived in Epirus. When Helenus died she was taken by her son Pergamus to Asia Minor, where he founded the city of Pergamum.
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Andromache (ăndrŏ'məkē), in Greek mythology, Trojan princess, wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax. After the Trojan War she was carried away by Neoptolemus, whose father, Achilles, had slain her husband. She later married Hector's brother Helenus and they jointly ruled Epirus. She is a noble figure in the Iliad; Euripides and Racine wrote plays about her.
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For other uses, see Andromache (disambiguation).
In Greek mythology, Andromache (pronounced /ænˈdrɒməkiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη) was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled. The name means "battle of a man", from ἀνδρός (andros) "man" and μάχη (machē) "battle".[1]
During the Trojan War, Hector was killed by Achilles, and their son Astyanax was thrown from the city walls by the Greek Herald Talthybius. Neoptolemus took Andromache as a concubine and Hector's brother, Helenus, as a slave. By Neoptolemus, she was the mother of Molossus, and according to Pausanias,[2] of Pielus and Pergamus. When Neoptolemus died, Andromache married Helenus and became Queen of Epirus. Pausanias also implies that Helenus' son, Cestrinus, was by Andromache. Andromache eventually went to live with Pergamus in Pergamum, where she died of old age.
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Classical treatment
- Homer. Iliad VI, 390–430.
- Apollodorus. Bibliotheke III, xii, 6.
- Apollodorus. Epitome V, 23; VI, 12.
- Euripides. Andromache.
- Virgil. Aeneid III, 294–355.
In Euripides' play, she and her child are nearly assassinated by Hermione, Neoptolemus' wife and daughter of Helen.
Modern treatment
She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine (1639–1699), entitled Andromaque, and a minor character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Andromache is the subject of a 1932 opera by German composer Herbert Windt. She was portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave in the 1971 film version of Euripides' The Trojan Women, and by Saffron Burrows in the 2004 film Troy. She also appears as a character in David Gemmell's Troy series. Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Firebrand" makes her an Amazon princess--Homer does name the Amazons among the Trojan allies, interpreting her name as 'she fights like a man.'
References
- ^ Campbell, Mike. "Andromache". Behind the Name. http://www.behindthename.com/name/andromache. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
- ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece, 1.11.1.
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- Astyanax (young son of Hector and Andromache)
- Astynax (character)
- Pyrrhus (character)
- Hektor's Abschied ("Will sich Hektor ewig..."), song for voice & piano (two versions), D. 312 (Op. 58/1) (Classical Work)
- Neoptolemus (character – in Greek Legend)
- Andromachē
- Hermione (in Greek Mythology)
- Baron Pierre Narcisse Guérin (French painter)
- Hector (in Greek Mythology)
- Helenus (in Greek Mythology)
- Pergamum
- Ermione (opera)
- Hermione (character)
- Andromache's Farewell, for soprano & orchestra, Op. 39 (Classical Work)
