Andromache

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Andromache

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Andromache (Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
: ) was the wife of Hector

Hector

In Greek mythology, Hector , or Hektor, is a Troy prince and one of the greatest fighters in the Trojan War. He is the son of Priam and Hecuba, descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy....
and daughter of Eetion

Eetion

In Greek mythology, E?tion was the king of the Cilician Thebe. He is the father of Andromache, wife of Hector, and of seven sons, including Podes....
, and sister to Podes

Podes

Podes was the son of Eetion in Greek mythology, and thus the brother of Andromache, wife of Hector, whom he is said to have befriended. He fought on the side of the Trojans in the Trojan War, and was killed by Menelaus....
. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled. The name means "battle of a man", from a?d??? (andros) "of a man" and µa?? (mache) "battle".

During the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
, Hector was killed by Achilles

Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
, and their son Astyanax

Astyanax

In Greek mythology, Astyanax was the son of Hector and Andromache. His birth name was Scamandrius , but the people of Troy nicknamed him Astyanax , because he was the son of the city's great defender and the heir apparent's firstborn son....
was thrown from the city walls by the Greek Herald Talthybius

Talthybius

Talthybius was herald and friend to Agamemnon in the Trojan War. He was the one who took Briseis from the tent of Achilles. Preceding the duel of Menelaus and Paris, Agamemnon charges him to fetch a sheep for sacrifice....
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Classical treatment

Homer
Homer

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. Iliad
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VI, 390–430.
Apollodorus
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Apollodorus of Athens son of Asclepiades, was a Greeks scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace....
. Bibliotheke III, xii, 6.
Apollodorus
Apollodorus

Apollodorus of Athens son of Asclepiades, was a Greeks scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace....
. Epitome
Epitome

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V, 23; VI, 12.
Euripides
Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
. Andromache
Andromache (play)

Andromache is a play by Euripides. It follows Andromache during her life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War....
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Virgil
Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works?the Bucolics , the Georgics and the Aeneid?although several Appendix Vergiliana are also attributed to him....
. Aeneid
Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin Epic poetry written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Rome....
III, 294–355.

In Euripides' play, she and her child are nearly assassinated by Hermione

Hermione (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Hermione was the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She had three brothers. While her parents were away fighting , Hermione was being raised by her aunt, Clytemnestra....
, Neoptolemus' wife and daughter of Helen

Helen

In Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra....
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Modern treatment

She is also the subject of a tragedy by French classical playwright Jean Racine

Jean Racine

Jean Racine was a France dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition....
(1639–1699), entitled Andromaque
Andromaque

Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the France playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse. It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before the court of Louis XIV in the Louvre in the private chambers of the Queen, Marie Th?r?se, by the royal company of actors, called "les Grands Com?diens", with Th?r?se Du Parc in the title...
, and a minor character in Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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's Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist does not die....
. Andromache is the subject of a 1932 opera

Opera

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by German

Germans

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composer

Composer

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Herbert Windt

Herbert Windt

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. She was portrayed by Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

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in the 1971 film version of Euripides' The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women

'The Trojan Women' is a tragedy by the Ancient Greece playwright Euripides. Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean Sea island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athens earlier in 415 BC , the same year the play premiered....
, and by Saffron Burrows

Saffron Burrows

Saffron Dominique Burrows is an England actor and former fashion model. She also starred in the 2008 NBC series, My Own Worst Enemy ....
in the 2004

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film Troy
Troy (film)

Troy is an epic film released on May 14, 2004, concerning the Trojan War. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad, but includes material from Virgil's Aeneid and other sources, and frequently diverges from myth....
. She also appears as a character in David Gemmell

David Gemmell

David Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell's first fiction work published in 1984....
's Troy series. Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Firebrand" makes her an Amazon princess--Homer does name the Amazons among the Trojan allies, interpreting her name as 'she fights like a man.'