Andromache
mythological figure · 6 works · 12 mentions · 27 anchored passages
she · Hector's wife · Hektor's wife · daughter of great Eetion · his captive · his wife · the Trojan captive · wife of Hector · yon captive
in the texts
Iliad
Hektor's wife, daughter of Eetion, whose entire birth family was destroyed by Achilles, and who begs Hektor not to leave her and their son fatherless before he returns to battle.
stay here upon this wall;
With this he laid the child again in the arms of his wife, who took him to her own soft bosom, smiling through her tears.
Hektor smiled as he looked upon the boy, but he did not speak, and Andromache stood by him weeping and taking his hand in her own.
Andromache
Trojan widow of Hector, now a war-captive and concubine of Neoptolemus, the play's protagonist and suppliant at the shrine of Thetis.
Andromache:
Andromache:
Andromache:
The Trojan Women
Widow of Hector, now assigned as a captive to Achilles' son, whose grief over her husband, her virtue as a wife, and the loss of her son Astyanax form a major thread of the window.
Hecuba:
Hecuba:
Hecuba:
Tusculan Disputations
Unnamed mourner (implicitly Hector's wife) who grieves at seeing his body dragged.
"I saw — what I most grievously endured to see — Hector dragged by the four-horse chariot.
Orations
Trojan heroine whose laments are known even to the Indians through Homer.
So that, though the Indians are without sight of many of the stars among us — for they say the Bears do not appear with them — they are not unacquainted with the sufferings of Priam, and the laments and wailings of Andromache and Hecuba, and the valour of Achilles and Hector.
De Pudicitia
Trojan figure invoked via a tragic stage role as an analogy for misreading.
it is nothing to the point of "Andromache.