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Jacques-Louis David- Andromache Mourning Hector

Astyanax with his mother and the dead Hector

Astyanax is a person in Greek mythology. He is the son of Hector of Troy and Andromache. He is killed at the end of the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, so he could not be a new king of Troy, or want revenge.

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Astyanax, in Andromache's lap, reaches to touch his father's helmet before his duel with Achilles (Apulian red-figure column-crater, ca. 370–360 BC).

See also

In Spanish: Astianacte para niños

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