History
Andromache was the wife of Hector, son of Priam, king of Troy.[1] She and Hector sired a son, Astyanax.[2][3]
When Achilles sacked Thebe, he slew Andromache's father and seven brothers.[2]
Andromache tried to refrain Hector to go in the battlefront once, foreseeing his doom.[2] After Hector was slain by Achilles, Andromache denounced the arrogance of Penthesilea of the Amazons, who had come to battle for Troy to cleanse her soul, and urged her to renounce facing Achilles, in vain.[1]
After the city had fallen, Odysseus advised to slay Astyanax, which Calchus supported and proposed to Agamemnon. Under Agamemnon's decree, Odysseus took Astyanax and let him fall from the rampart, causing Andromache to faint. Achilles' son Neoptolemus claimed Andromache as his own.[3]