Andromache

Wife of Hector and the great wife of the Iliad, daughter of Eëtion king of Cilician Thebe — a city Achilles had sacked early in the war, killing her father and her seven brothers in a single day. Her farewell to Hector at the Scaean Gate, with their infant Astyanax frightened by the plume of his father's helmet, is the most domestic scene in Homer (*Iliad* 6.392-502). She foresaw the orphanhood of her child from the walls while Achilles dragged Hector's body in the dust, and after the fall of Troy was carried off as Neoptolemus's prize (*Iliad* 22.437-515; 24.723-745 for her final lament over the body).

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