Andromache (an-drom' a-kē), the wife of Hector, and one of the most celebrated and beautiful of the women of Troy. She lost her husband and seven brothers in the Trojan War, became the captive of Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, and finally the wife of Helenus, a son of Priam. She is the subject of Andromache, the tragedy of Euripides.