Astyanax — son of Hector and Andromache. the last descendant of Ilus, the founder of Troy. Hector had great hopes for him and dreamed that someday Astyanax would become the mighty ruler of Troy, about whom people would say that he surpassed his father. But neither his dreams nor Andromache’s fears came true that if his father died, his son would have to beg for alms at other people’s doors. Astyanax died during the capture of Troy.
According to one version, some Achaean warrior tore him from his mother’s hands and threw him from the city wall; according to another, Astyanax was killed in front of King Priam by Achilles’ son Neoptolemus. According to Arctinus, Odysseus did this.
According to Hellanicus' version, Neoptolemus released him from Troy and he arrived at Ascanius. According to Hellanicus, he founded Arisba together with Ascanius. Together with Ascanius, he resettled residents from Paleoskepsis to new Skepsis. Their descendants ruled for a long time in Skepsis. According to Xanthus of Lydia, he brought the Phrygians from the region of the Berekints and from Ascania. According to Anaxicrates, he arrived at Tanais.
Astyanax appears on several dozen antique vases with various subjects: “Farewell of Hector to Andromache”, “Andromache with Astyanax”, “Death of Astyanax”. The oldest of them date back to the end. 7th century BC e. but identification of characters is not always reliable.
Homer calls Astimactus Scamandrius. The tragedy of the Astyanact Action was dedicated to him. Character in Seneca's tragedy "The Trojan Women". In Philip Farmer’s series of science fiction novels “The World of the River,” Astyanax, resurrected by an alien civilization, appears as one of the main characters.
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Andromache is the wife of the great Trojan hero Hector. During the Battle of Troy, Hector dies and Andromache goes to Achilles' son Neoptolemus. She mourns the death of Troy, her beloved husband, her hated new marriage and her share of slavery.
Andromache gave birth to a son to Neoptolemus, and the hero’s legal wife hated her. With the help of an insidious plan, she almost destroyed Andromache, but Peleus, the father of Achilles, saves her. Neoptolemus dies at the hands of Orestes and Andromache becomes the legal wife of King Helen and rules with him in Epirus.
Sources: drevniebogi.ru, www.fanbio.ru, www.symbolarium.ru, lib.liim.ru, dic.academic.ru
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Hector, leader of the Trojan troops in the war with the Achaeans, killed by Achilles
Hector, Greek - son of Priam and Hecuba, leader of the Trojan troops in the war with the Achaeans.
The Trojan people called him the shield of their city and revered him as a god. Hector was not only the most powerful and brave Trojan warrior, he was also distinguished by his beauty and nobility of spirit. In everything, Hector was superior to the leader of the Achaean troops, and the hero Achilles surpassed him only in strength.
If Agamemnon brought one hundred thousand Greeks under the walls of Troy, then Hector had fifty thousand at his disposal, and the majority were allies of the Trojans, who fought only for booty or money. The army of the Trojans themselves, defending their hometown, numbered only ten thousand. However, under the leadership of Hector, they successfully resisted the Achaeans for nine years. Hector did not limit himself to defensive battles, knowing full well that attack is the best type of defense. During forays, Hector always fought in the front ranks, drawing the entire Trojan army with him by his example. Even his enemies recognized the greatness of his exploits. At the very beginning of the war, he was not afraid of the tenfold superiority of the Achaeans and entered into battle with them in order to prevent them from landing on the shore. If he retreated, it was only in order to preserve his army for new defensive battles. During the nine years of war, the Achaeans suffered such losses that they lost heart and were ready to lift the siege of Troy, conclude an honorable peace and return to their homeland.
Stills from the film Troy: Hector (left) and his brother Paris. Actor Eric Bana plays Hector.
When, in the tenth year of the war, the Trojan ally Pandarus violated the truce, and Hector had to wage war contrary to the oath-sanctioned treaty, he did not despair and with his courage again won the favor of the gods. Skillfully taking advantage of the discord between Agamemnon and Achilles, because of which Achilles stopped military operations, Hector pushed the Greeks behind the walls of their camp, broke through the gates, and broke through to the Greek ships to burn them. He was not at a loss even when the Trojans took to their heels, frightened by the appearance of Patroclus in the armor of Achilles. Hector again closed ranks, marched against Patroclus and killed him in single combat.
After the victory over Patroclus, Hector's final feat awaited him: death on the battlefield. Forgetting about past grievances, Achilles was eager to fight to avenge the death of his friend. He put the entire Trojan army to flight, made his way to the city walls and was ready to break into Troy through the Scaean Gate. No one dared to stand in his way except Hector, who obeyed the command of honor and duty. Despite all the pleas of his parents, his wife, and the rest of the Trojans, he was left alone in front of the locked gates and challenged Achilles to a duel to the death, with the condition that the body of the vanquished would be given to his friends for burial. Achilles rejected this condition and rushed at Hector. Fear gripped Hector, and he ran around the city walls three times, fleeing from Achilles, who was relentlessly pursuing him. Not only people, but also the gods watched the fight intently. Finally, Zeus threw two lots of death onto the golden scales of fate; Hector's lot fell - his fate was decided.
Athena, who stood on the side of the Achaeans, descended from Olympus to earth and, taking the image of Deiphobus, Hector’s beloved brother, began to persuade the Trojan hero to single combat with Achilles. But as soon as Hector threw his spear at Achilles, Athena disappeared, making it clear to Hector that he had been abandoned by the gods. Hector did not shy away from his fate: “Woe! The almighty gods have called me to death!../But I will not perish in vain, I will not fall into dust without glory;/I will do something great that my descendants will hear!” In a fierce battle worthy of the greatest of heroes, Hector finally fell at the hands of Achilles. Finding a place not protected by armor, Achilles pierced him with a spear.
Further sad events are described in the article “”.
“Of all the characters in the Iliad, Hector evokes the greatest sympathy, both by his character and by his actions,” say the researchers of the Iliad, and they are right. The best episodes of the Homeric epic are dedicated to him: Hector’s farewell to his son, Hector’s duel with Achilles and Priam’s plea for the release of Hector’s body are among the highest peaks of world poetry.
Even the best depictions of Hector in sculpture and painting are far from the expressiveness of the image of this hero as presented by Homer. The following subjects were common in ancient sculpture and vase painting: “Hector’s farewell to Andromache,” “Hector’s duel with Achilles,” “Duel with Ajax,” “Achilles dragging Hector’s body.” Among the works of European masters, noteworthy are Thorvaldsen’s marble relief “Hector’s Farewell to Andromache” (1837) and the painting by J.-L. David's "Dead Hector" (1788).
At the end of the 18th century. The tragedy “Hector” was written by Ya. B. Knyazhnin, in 1780 I. F. Schiller wrote the poem “Farewell to Hector”.
Despite the greatness and tragedy of his fate, Hector did not become the main character of either ancient drama or poetic work. And among modern authors this happened less often than the image of Hector deserves. Nevertheless, for almost three thousand years now he has acted as a genuine knight without fear or reproach in all works dedicated to the Trojan War - from Homer to the present day.
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The protagonist of the tragedies of Euripides “Alexander”, Pseudo-Euripides “Res”, Astydamas the Younger “Hector”, the tragedy of Naevius “Hector the Departing”.
The asteroid (624) Hector, discovered in 1907, is named after Hector.
In popular culture In medieval France, where modern playing cards (“classical” or “French”) appeared around the 14th century, “pictures” (cards with characters - kings, queens and jacks) were associated with certain historical or legendary characters. The Jack of Diamonds matched Hector.
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On the same evening, as the prince gave orders to Alpatych, Desalles, having demanded a meeting with Princess Marya, informed her that since the prince was not entirely healthy and was not taking any measures for his safety, and from Prince Andrei’s letter it was clear that he was staying in Bald Mountains If it is unsafe, he respectfully advises her to write a letter with Alpatych to the head of the province in Smolensk with a request to notify her about the state of affairs and the extent of the danger to which Bald Mountains are exposed. Desalle wrote a letter to the governor for Princess Marya, which she signed, and this letter was given to Alpatych with the order to submit it to the governor and, in case of danger, to return as soon as possible.Having received all the orders, Alpatych, accompanied by his family, in a white feather hat (a princely gift), with a stick, just like the prince, went out to sit in a leather tent, packed with three well-fed Savras.
The bell was tied up and the bells were covered with pieces of paper. The prince did not allow anyone to ride in Bald Mountains with a bell. But Alpatych loved bells and bells on a long journey. Alpatych's courtiers, a zemstvo, a clerk, a cook - black, white, two old women, a Cossack boy, coachmen and various servants saw him off.
The daughter placed chintz down pillows behind him and under him. The old lady's sister-in-law secretly slipped the bundle. One of the coachmen gave him a hand.
- Well, well, women's training! Women, women! - Alpatych said puffingly, patteringly exactly as the prince spoke, and sat down in the tent. Having given the last orders about the work to the zemstvo, and in this way not imitating the prince, Alpatych took off his hat from his bald head and crossed himself three times.
- If anything... you will come back, Yakov Alpatych; For Christ’s sake, have pity on us,” his wife shouted to him, hinting at rumors about war and the enemy.
“Women, women, women’s gatherings,” Alpatych said to himself and drove off, looking around at the fields, some with yellowed rye, some with thick, still green oats, some still black, which were just beginning to double. Alpatych rode along, admiring the rare spring harvest this year, looking closely at the strips of rye crops on which people were beginning to reap in some places, and made his economic considerations about sowing and harvesting and whether any princely order had been forgotten.
Having fed him twice on the way, by the evening of August 4th Alpatych arrived in the city.
On the way, Alpatych met and overtook convoys and troops. Approaching Smolensk, he heard distant shots, but these sounds did not strike him. What struck him most was that, approaching Smolensk, he saw a beautiful field of oats, which some soldiers were mowing, apparently for food, and in which they were camping; This circumstance struck Alpatych, but he soon forgot it, thinking about his business.
All the interests of Alpatych’s life for more than thirty years were limited by the will of the prince alone, and he never left this circle. Everything that did not concern the execution of the prince’s orders not only did not interest him, but did not exist for Alpatych.
Alpatych, having arrived in Smolensk on the evening of August 4th, stopped across the Dnieper, in the Gachensky suburb, at an inn, with the janitor Ferapontov, with whom he had been in the habit of staying for thirty years. Ferapontov, twelve years ago, with the light hand of Alpatych, having bought a grove from the prince, began trading and now had a house, an inn and a flour shop in the province. Ferapontov was a fat, black, red-haired forty-year-old man, with thick lips, a thick bumpy nose, the same bumps over his black, frowning eyebrows and a thick belly.
Ferapontov, in a waistcoat and a cotton shirt, stood at a bench overlooking the street. Seeing Alpatych, he approached him.
- Welcome, Yakov Alpatych. The people are from the city, and you are going to the city,” said the owner.
- So, from the city? - said Alpatych.
“And I say, people are stupid.” Everyone is afraid of the Frenchman.
- Women's talk, women's talk! - said Alpatych.
- That’s how I judge, Yakov Alpatych. I say there is an order that they won’t let him in, which means it’s true. And the men are asking for three rubles per cart - there is no cross on them!
The name of this Trojan princess is translated as “at war with her husband,” although in ancient Greek mythology she is glorified as an example of a faithful and loving wife. Her difficult fate was described by the ancient playwright Euripides in the tragedies “The Trojan Woman” and “Andromache”. Homer admired the power of this woman's love in his famous Iliad. The scene when Hector and Andromache say goodbye is considered one of the most emotional moments of the poem. The tragic story of lovers and Homeric style have inspired more than one generation of artists. Such ancient masters as Virgil, Ennius, Ovid, Naevius, Seneca and Sappho also wrote about Andromache. And the tragedy of Jean Baptiste Racine has long become a favorite work of theater playwrights.
Political union
Ancient myths tell that Andromache, the daughter of the Cilician king Eetion and the wife of Hector, heir to the throne of Troy, lived in those distant and cruel times when the world was torn apart by wars of conquest. In order to defend their independence, many states had to enter into political alliances with other stronger kingdoms and principalities. And the marriage of heirs to the throne, which also binds states by blood ties, was one of the most common political instruments. The union of the daughter of Eetion and the heir to the throne of King Priam, who was the ruler of the influential state of Troy, gave the people of Cilicia hope for the support of the famous Trojan army in the event of aggression from another state.
Fall of Cilicia
Myths tell that the illustrious heir of Priam immediately became inflamed with passion for his chosen one, and now Andromache, as Hector’s wife and his beloved, had the opportunity to influence the politics of Troy in the interests of her homeland. And so it was, until the famous hero Achilles appeared on the military scene with his Myrmidon warriors. He accepted the Greek's offer and joined his army, making him invincible. Cilicia fell and was plundered, and King Eetion himself and his seven sons died at the hands of Achilles. Despite the fact that Andromache influenced the political mood of King Priam as the wife of Hector, Troy was unable to come to the aid of Cilicia, since the new balance of power called into question her own safety. Priam was forced to look for serious allies to resist Agamemnon.
Sparta as an ally of Troy
Despite the family tragedy, Andromache was happy with her beloved Hector. She was expecting the birth of her first child and hoped that her husband, famous in battle, would not have to take up arms in defense of Troy. The news that Hector and his younger brother Paris would soon have to go to Sparta to negotiate a military alliance saddened her with the inevitable separation from her beloved. But wise Andromache, as the wife of Hector, the future king of Troy, understood the importance of this mission, so she released her husband with a heavy heart and promised to meet him with her son in her arms. And perhaps an alliance with Sparta could have stopped the invasion of Troy, but love intervened. Prince Paris and the wife of the Spartan king Menelaus, Helen, fell in love with each other. Paris secretly took his beloved from Sparta, and instead of an ally, Troy received a fierce enemy in the person of King Menelaus, who sided with the Greeks.
Trojan War
King Priam did not abandon the son of Paris and Helen, despite the impending war, and Troy prepared for a siege. Hector’s wife knew what the Greeks were capable of, and fearing for his life, her son Astyanax asked her husband to influence Priam and hand over the lovers to the Spartans, but Hector refused. Meanwhile, the troops of Agamemnon and Menelaus approached the indestructible walls of Troy. The chances of Priam’s troops to survive were quite high, and besides, the discord between Agamemnon and Achilles played into their hands, because of which the latter refused to participate in the war.
An incident changed everything: Achilles’s best friend Patroclus decided to take part in the battle against Troy and, wearing the armor of the famous hero, led the Myrmidons into battle. Before the battle, Andromache, with her son in her arms, begs Hector, who leads the troops of Troy, to pay off and give Paris and his beloved into the hands of the Spartan king. After all, it was Helen’s flight to Troy that was put forward by Agamemnon as the main reason for the war. Hector does not heed his wife’s pleas and entrusts the fate of the kingdom and his own to the gods. In the first battle, the Trojans win, and Hector kills Potroclus in the duel, mistaking him for Achilles because of the latter’s armor.
Having lost his friend, Achilles returns to the banner of Agamemnon with the intention of destroying Hector, which he does by challenging the heir of Priam to a duel. Having killed Hector, Achilles, to further humiliate the Trojans, tied his body to his chariot and stretched it along the walls of Troy in front of King Priam and the grief-stricken Andromache, and then three more times around the tomb of Potroclus. In order to bury Hector with the honors due to a prince, Priam had to come to an agreement with Achilles and pay large ransoms. During the funeral, hostilities ceased, which gave the Greeks the opportunity to come up with a cunning plan to penetrate the walls of the city. Using wood from some of their ships, they built a huge horse figure, which went down in history as the Trojan Horse.
Fall of Troy
After the funeral, the Trojans found the enemy camp empty, and in its place - a huge statue of a horse. Taking this as a gift from the gods, they dragged her into the city, thereby dooming themselves to death. Inside the statue there was a Greek strike force, which at the first opportunity killed the guards and opened the gates of the city to Agamemnon’s troops. Troy fell, and those of its citizens who did not die became slaves. Hector's wife, taken prisoner, also did not escape this fate. The Trojan princess became the slave of Achilles' son Neoptolemus, and her son Astyanax was thrown from the city walls.
The further fate of the Trojan princess
The unfortunate Andromache wished for death, but instead was forced to eke out the existence of a concubine and give birth to sons to her fierce enemy. It must be said that Neoptolemus, who ruled Epirus, was very fond of his slave and the sons of Molossus, Piel and Pergamon, which aroused terrible jealousy of his legal but childless wife Hermione. She tried to destroy Andromache and her children, but Achilles’ father Peleus, who had affection for his great-grandchildren, came to the rescue. After the death of Neoptolemus at the hands of Ores in the battles of Delphi, Hermione went over to the side of her husband's enemy. Andromache remarried to Hector's relative Helenus and remained to rule Epirus as queen and mother of the legitimate heirs to the throne.
Hector Hector
(Hector, Εχτωρ). The eldest son of the Trojan king Priam and Hecuba, husband of Andromache. He was the main hero of the Trojans in their fight against the Greeks and was killed in a duel with Achilles. This is one of the noblest figures in Homer's Iliad.
(Source: “A Brief Dictionary of Mythology and Antiquities.” M. Korsh. St. Petersburg, edition by A. S. Suvorin, 1894.)
HECTOR(Εκτωρ) in Greek mythology, son Priam And Hecuba, main Trojan hero in the Iliad. About G.’s participation in hostilities in the first years of the war, sources only report that G. fell at the hands of Protesilaus, the first to enter Trojan land (Apollod. epit. Ill 30). G. became famous in the tenth year of the war. As the eldest son of Priam and his immediate successor, he leads the military operations of the Trojans, himself distinguished by strength and heroism. Twice G. enters into single combat with Ajax Telamonides, the most powerful after Achilles Achaean hero (Hom. II VII 181-305; XIV 402-439). Under the leadership of G., the Trojans break into the fortified camp of the Achaeans (XII 415-471), approach the Achaean ships and manage to set fire to one of them (XV 345-388; 483-499; 591-745). G. also manages to defeat him just before the gates of Troy Patroclus and remove the armor of Achilles from the murdered man (XVI 818-857). After Achilles enters the battle, G., despite the pleas of his parents, remains alone with him in the field and dies in a duel at the Skeian Gate, predicting the imminent death of Achilles himself (XXII 25-360). The latter, obsessed with the thirst for revenge for Patroclus, ties the body of the murdered G. to his chariot and drives around Troy, dragging the corpse of the slain enemy. Although Achilles subsequently continues to desecrate G.’s body, neither beasts of prey nor decay touch him; the dead G. is protected by Apollo, whose help G. used repeatedly during his life. God twice restored his strength in fights with Ajax (VII 272 next; XV 235-279), helped G. during the duel with Achilles, until the lot of fate indicated the inevitability of G.’s death (XXII 203-213). The support provided by G. Apollo served in the post-Homeric tradition as a reason for the assertion that G. was the son of God himself (Stesich. frg. 47). Apollo is the first to raise his voice in defense of the murdered G. at the council of the gods, after which Achilles receives an order from Zeus to hand over the body of the murdered man to Priam, who arranges an honorable funeral for his son.
Researchers of the ancient Greek epic have long noticed that the name of G. is not associated with any other events of the Trojan War, except for those depicted in the Iliad. G.'s grave was shown not in Troas, but in Thebes (Paus. IX 18, 5); this makes it possible to assume that G. is a Boeotian hero by origin, and his battle with Achilles originally took place on Greek soil. Only relatively late was the image of G. included in the circle of legends about the Trojan War, in which G., more than any other hero, personifies the idea of patriotic duty. This is probably why the image of G. enjoys great sympathy from the author of the Iliad. G. is depicted with particular warmth in the famous scene of farewell to his wife Andromache(VI 370-502).
V. n. brightly.
In Europe literature (“Farewell to G.” by Schiller and others), the traditional attitude towards the image as the personification of nobility was preserved (for example, in J. Giraudoux’s play “There Will Be No Trojan War,” G. is essentially the main character - the exponent of humanistic ideas).
In ancient plastic art (reliefs of sarcophagi) and vase painting, the following subjects were especially common: G.'s duel with Ajax, farewell to Andromache, G.'s death, the ransom of his body by Priam. Europe art turned to subjects: the duel with Achilles (sketch by P. P. Rubens, fresco by J. Amigoni); Achilles dragging G.'s body around the walls of Troy (paintings by Italian and French artists of the 17th and 18th centuries); ransoming the body (paintings by C. Le Brun, G. B. Tiepolo) and farewell to Andromache. The most significant work of musical and dramatic art is the cantata “The Death of G.” P. Winter, 18th century.
(Source: “Myths of the Peoples of the World.”)
HectorIn the Iliad, one of the main Trojan heroes, the eldest son of the king of Troy, Priam and Hecuba. The main defender of Troy. Andromache's husband. Brother of Agathon, Aretas, Helenus, Hippothoos, Deiphobus, Cassandra, Cebrion, Cleitus, Creusa, Laodice, Lycaon, Paris, Polydorus, Polyxena, Politus, Troilus and others. He died in single combat with Achilles, who was taking revenge on Hector for the murder of his friend Patroclus.
// Jacques Louis DAVID: Andromache mourns Hector
(Source: “Myths of Ancient Greece. Dictionary-reference book.” EdwART, 2009.)
Left Priam, right Hecuba.
Painting of the red-figure amphora of Euthymides.
Around 510 BC e.
Munich.
Museum of Ancient Applied Art.
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