Editing Andromache (section)

=== Life after the fall of Troy ===
[[File:Guérin Andromaque et Pyrrhus 1810.jpg|thumb|''[[Andromache and Pyrrhus]]'' by [[Pierre-Narcisse Guérin]], 1810]]
After Troy falls, Andromache is given as a concubine to [[Neoptolemus]], also called Pyrrhus, son of [[Achilles]], after her son Astyanax is murdered at the suggestion of [[Odysseus]], who fears he will grow up to avenge his father Hector.<ref name=":3" /> She goes with him to Phthia, where [[Thetis]] and [[Peleus]], the parents of Achilles, lived.<ref name=":2">Euripides, ''Andromache''</ref> Hyginus calls her son [[Amphialus]],<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 123</ref> while Euripides gives his name as [[Molossus (son of Neoptolemus)|Molossus]]<ref name=":2" /> and Pausanias says that she has three children, named Molossus, Pielus and [[Pergamus]].<ref name=":1" /> In Euripides' ''Andromache'', Hermione, the wife of Neoptolemus and daughter of Helen and [[Menelaus]], tries to kill Andromache because she believes Andromache has cursed her with infertility. In the play, Neoptolemus is killed by [[Orestes]], who marries Hermione, and the goddess [[Thetis]] announces that Andromache will marry her ex-brother-in-law [[Helenus of Troy|Helenus]] and live with him in "the land of the Molossians", where her son Molossus will start "an unbroken succession of kings who will live happy lives".<ref name=":2" /> In Pausanias' account Helenus' son [[Cestrinus]] was the child of Andromache.<ref name=":1" /> [[Aeneas]] also visits Andromache and Helenus when they are living in Buthrotum, Chaonia, where Helenus gives him a prophecy and Andromache brings robes and a Phrygian cloak for Aeneas' son Ascanius and tells him he is "the sole image left to [her] of [her] Astyanax".<ref name=":4">Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 278-505</ref> Because Buthrotum functions as a hollow replica of the once-vibrant, razed Troy in the ''Aeneid'', Andromache's dedications to the city--particularly Hector's grave--represent her dedication to her family and people.<ref name=":4" /> Andromache's actions after the fall of Troy thus reaffirm her virtuosity represented throughout Homer's ''Iliad'' and Vergil's ''Aeneid''. Pausanias, writing in the 2nd century AD, says that "there is still a shrine [to Andromache] in the city" that was named after her son Pergamus.<ref name=":1" />