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Astyanax

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Astyanax

In Greek mythology, the baby son of Hector and Andromache. After the death of all the sons of Priam in battle at the siege of Troy, the child was thrown from the city walls by the victorious Greeks.



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So when he had fallen bloody death and hard fate seized on Astyanax.
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Hector had named him Scamandrius, but the people called him Astyanax, for his father stood alone as chief guardian of Ilius.
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