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Because andromaches' father and brothers were killed by Achilles, her mother taken prisoner and ransomed. #2 answ: Andromache's father and brothers were killed by Achilleswhen he captured Thebe during the Trojan War; her mother was spared and ransomed, but died in Troy before its fall. During the seige of Troy, Achilles also killed her husband, Hector, and then desecrated his body. Andromache herself became the slave and concubine of Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, when Troy was captured; her son Astyanax was flung by the Greeks from the walls of Troy.

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