Editing Andromache (section)

=== Families ===
Andromache was born in [[Cilician Thebe]], a city that the [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaeans ]] later sacked, with Achilles killing her father [[Eetion]] and seven brothers.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Minchin |first=Elizabeth |date=2011 |title=Andromache |encyclopedia=The Homer Encyclopedia |editor=M. Finkelberg |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |pages=53–54 |isbn=978-1-4051-7768-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gTxCvwEACAAJ&pg=PA53}}</ref> After this, her mother died of illness (6.425).  She was taken from her father's household by Hector, who had brought countless wedding-gifts (22.470-72). Thus [[Priam]]’s household alone provides Andromache with her only familial support. In contrast to the inappropriate relationship of [[Paris (mythology)|Paris]] and [[Helen of Troy|Helen]], Hector and Andromache fit the Greek ideal of a happy and productive marriage, which heightens the tragedy of their shared misfortune. Andromache and Hector have a son together, named Scamandrius but called [[Astyanax]] by both the people of Troy and Homer.<ref>Homer, ''The'' ''Iliad'' VI 369-493</ref> According to some accounts, they had other children including [[Oxynios]]<ref>Narrations 46, [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]].</ref> and [[Laodamas]].<ref>Trojan War Chonicle 6.12, [[Dictys Cretensis]].</ref>

Andromache is alone after [[Troy]] falls and her son is killed. Notably, Andromache remains unnamed in ''Iliad'' 22, referred to only as the wife of Hector (Greek ''alokhos''), indicating the centrality of her status as Hector's wife and of the marriage itself to her identity.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Segal |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Segal (classicist) |title=Andromache's Anagnorisis: Formulaic Artistry in ''Iliad'' 22.437–476 |journal=[[Harvard Studies in Classical Philology]] |volume=75 |date=1971 |pages=33–57 |jstor=311213 |doi=10.2307/311213}}</ref> The Greeks divide the Trojan women as spoils of war and permanently separate them from the ruins of Troy and from one another. Hector's fears of her life as a captive woman are realized as her family is entirely stripped from her by the violence of war, as she fulfills the fate of conquered women in ancient warfare (6.450–465). Without her familial structure, Andromache is a displaced woman who must live outside familiar and even safe societal boundaries.