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  2. Hecuba - Wikipedia

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    In Book 22, she pleads with Hector not to fight Achilles, expressing her premonition of "never get[ting] to mourn you laid out on a bier." [15] In Book 24.201–16, she is stricken with anxiety upon hearing of Priam's plan to retrieve Hector's body from Achilles' hut. Further along in the same episode, at 24.287–98, she offers Priam the ...

  3. Andromache - Wikipedia

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    Hector takes his son from the maid, yet returns him to his wife, a small action that provides great insight into the importance Homer placed on her care-taking duties as mother (6.466–483). A bonding moment between mother and father occurs in this scene when Hector's helmet scares Astyanax, providing a moment of light relief in the story.

  4. Priam - Wikipedia

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    Priam is said to have fathered fifty sons and many daughters, with his chief wife Hecuba, daughter of the Phrygian king Dymas and many other wives and concubines. These children include famous mythological figures such as Hector , Paris , Helenus , Cassandra , Deiphobus , Troilus , Laodice , Polyxena , Creusa , and Polydorus .

  5. Returns from Troy - Wikipedia

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    Neoptolemus got Andromache, wife of Hector and Odysseus took Priam's widow Hecuba (known in Greek as Hecabe). [4] The ghost of Achilles appeared before the survivors of the war, demanding that the Trojan princess Polyxena be sacrificed before anybody could leave, as either part of his spoil or because she had betrayed him. Neoptolemus did so ...

  6. List of children of Priam - Wikipedia

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    Aeneas did, however, marry Priam's daughter Creusa, making him a son-in-law of Priam. Ascanius, the son of Aeneas and Creusa, was himself the ancestor of Romulus and Remus. According to Homer: Lycaon is the son of Laothoe. Gorgythion is the son of Castianeira. According to Apollodorus: Aesacus's mother is Arisbe, daughter of Merops.

  7. Astyanax - Wikipedia

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    An engraving showing the child Astyanax thrown from the walls of Troy as his mother Andromache looks on. In Greek mythology, Astyanax (/ ə ˈ s t aɪ. ə n æ k s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀστυάναξ Astyánax, "lord of the city") was the son of Hector, the crown prince of Troy, and of his wife, Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe. [1]

  8. Hector - Wikipedia

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    Hector knows that Troy and the house of Priam are doomed to fall and that the gloomy fate of his wife and infant son will be to die or go into slavery in a foreign land. With understanding, compassion, and tenderness, he explains that he cannot personally refuse to fight, and comforts her with the idea that no one can take him until it is his ...

  9. Hecabe - Wikipedia

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    Hecabe, Latin Hecuba, a Trojan queen, wife of Priam and mother of Hector; Hecabe, one of the Danaïdes, who married and murdered Dryas; An orchid related to the genus ...