Andromache

Andromache is a person in Greek mythology. She is the wife of Hector of Troy and mother of Astyanax.

Andromache with her son and the dead Hector

After the Trojan War, Neoptolemus took her and Helenus as slaves. Of Neoptolemus she had a child named Molossus. After Neoptolemus died, Andromache married Helenus, and became Queen of Epirus.


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