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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Astyanax

    mythological figure · 6 works · 10 mentions · 16 anchored passages

    Scamandrius · Skamandrios · Hector's child · Hektor's darling son · her dear Astyanax · my child · the babe Astyanax · the child · this corpse

    in the texts

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Infant son of Hektor and Andromache, named Skamandrios by his father but called Astyanax by the Trojan people, who is frightened by Hektor's helmet before being kissed and blessed by him.

    Hektor had named him Skamandrios, but the people called him Astyanax, for his father stood alone as chief guardian of Ilion.
    chapter 6
    His father and mother laughed to see him, but Hektor took the helmet from his head and laid it all gleaming upon the ground.
    chapter 6
    When he had played till he was tired and went to sleep, he would lie in a bed, in the arms of his nurse, on a soft couch, knowing neither want nor care, whereas now that he has lost his father his lot will be full of hardship - he, whom the Trojans name Astyanax, because you, O Hektor, were the only defense of their gates and battlements.
    chapter 22

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Infant son of Hector, killed after the traditional fall of Troy.

    And besides these, to kill Astyanax, the child of a good man, so cruelly, casting him from the wall, and that too by the common resolve of the army and the kings;
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    And the kingdom he left to his son Scamandrius.
    chapter 1

    The Trojan WomenClassical · Greek

    Infant son of Hector and Andromache, condemned by Achaean decree to be thrown from Troy's walls lest he grow to avenge his father.

    Talthybius:
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    Talthybius:
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    Talthybius:
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    On the MysteriesClassical · Greek

    The archon in whose year a decree was passed.

    Peisander hereupon rose and moved that the decree passed in the archonship of Scamandrius be suspended and all whose names were on the list sent to the wheel, to ensure the discovery of everyone concerned before nightfall.
    book 10

    AndromacheClassical · Greek

    Andromache's infant son by Hector, killed by the Greeks at the sack of Troy.

    for I have lived to see my husband Hector slain by Achilles, and the babe Astyanax, whom I bore my lord, hurled from the towering battlements, when the Hellenes sacked our Trojan home;
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    CratylusClassical · Greek

    Son of Hector, called Astyanax ('lord of the city') by the men of Troy and Scamandrius by the women, used as a test case for which name is naturally correct.

    Hermogenes.
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    Hermogenes.
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    Hermogenes.
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