Astyanax
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In Greek mythology, Astyanax was the son of Hector, the crown prince of Troy, and of his wife, Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe. His birth name was Scamandrius, but the people of Troy nicknamed h
Astyanax, in Andromache's lap, reaches to touch his father's helmet before his duel with Achilles (Apulian red-figure column-crater, ca. 370–360 BC).
Astyanax torn from the arms of his mother Andromache to be killed by the Greek leaders. Painting by Rochegrosse.
Andromache and Pyrrhus by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1810
Neoptolemus
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In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus, originally called Pyrrhus at birth, was the son of the mythical warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia, and the brother of Oneiros. He became the progenitor of the
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…was feared he would avenge his father and rebuild Troy. In the version given by the Little Iliad and repeated by Pausanias (x.25.9), he was killed by Neoptolemus (also called Pyrrhus), who threw the infant from the walls, as predicted by Andromache in the Iliad. Another version is given in Iliou persis, in which…
Neoptolemus killing Priam on a black-figure amphora, Louvre.
Scene from the tragedy Andromache by Euripides: Orestes kills Neoptolemus at the altar of Apollo in Delphi. Despairing Hermione, wife of Neoptolemus but previously promised to Orestes, kneels at the foot of the altar. Roman fresco in Pompeii