person
Andromache
also: Ἀνδρομάχη
Hector's wife, whose parting from him at the Scaean gate (Book 6) and lament over his body (Book 24) frame the poem's cost of the war in domestic terms.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §6.369 Andromache
Hector's wife; her parting from him at the Scaean gate in Book 6, with their infant son Astyanax, and her lament over his body in Book 24, frame the poem's human cost of the war.