Astyanax (Earth-616)

Astyanax

Real Name

Astyanax

Relatives

Laomedon (grandfather)

Priam (grandfather);
Hecuba (grandmother);
Hector (father);
Andromache (mother);
Paris, Pammon, Polites, Antiphonus, Helenus, Deiphobus (uncles);
Cassandra, Polyxena (aunts)

Base of Operations

Troy

Status

Identity

No Dual Identity

Citizenship

Troy

Characteristics

Origin

Human

Universe

Earth-616

Place of Death

Troy

Creators

Roy Thomas, Miguel Sepulveda

First Appearance	Appearance of Death
Trojan War #5 (November, 2009)	Trojan War #5 (November, 2009)

History

Astyanax was the son of Hector (and thus the grandson of Priam, king of Troy) and of Andromache.^[1]

In the morning after the Achaeans sacked the city (after having entered it using a wooden horse full of their warriors), the Trojans were rounded up, and Achaean strategist Odysseus, supported by the seer Calchas, stated that Astyanax, as the son of Hector (killed earlier in the war by Achilles), was to be killed to prevent him from avenging his parents and city, and so Odysseus tore him from his mother and threw him from the city's walls, despite Andromache's complaints. She fainted at her son's fall, only for Achilles' son Neoptomelus to claim her for himself.^[1]