What Happened To Andromache After The End Of “The Iliad”?

A scene from Homer's Iliad that still moves readers today is the farewell of Hector, prince of Troy, to his young wife Andromache and their small son. Hector foretold that he would be killed and that Andromache would suffer a fate common to the widows of soldiers in Ancient Greece; she would be captured and sold into slavery. According to the story, this is what happened. She was captured by Neoptolemus, brother of the Greek warrior Achilles who killed her husband, and himself the killer of her father-in-law, Priam. She later had three sons, which earned her the hatred of Neoptolemus' childless wife. Eventually he died and she married a fellow Trojan, Helenus. In her last years she returned to Asia Minor (near Troy) and died in the new city of Pergamum, which was founded by one of her sons. It is not recorded what happened to her first son by Hector.

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