Andromache

Andromache, daughter of Eetion and wife of Hector, the Trojan hero. Her parting with her husband when he went forth to meet his fate is the most touching passage in Homer's Iliad (bk. vi.). After Hector's death and the murder of her son Astyanax, she became the slave of Pyrrhus, who took her to Epirus and married her, but presently gave up both his wife and his kingdom to Helenus, a son of Priam. Both Euripides and Racine made her sad career the subject of tragic dramas.