ANDROMACHE, in Greek legend, the daughter of Eetion, prince of Thebes in Mysia, and wife of Hector (q.v.). All her relations perished in or shortly after the taking of the town by Achilles (Iliad, vi. 414). After the capture of Troy her son Astyanax (or Scamandrius) was hurled from the battlements (Eurip. Troades, 720). When the captives were allotted, Androm ache fell to Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus), the son of Achilles, whom she accompanied to Epirus, and to whom she bore three sons. When Neoptolemus was slain at Delphi, he left Andromache and the kingdom to Helenus, the brother of Hector (Virgil, Aen. iii. After his death Andromache returned to Asia Minor with her youngest son Pergamus, who there founded a town named after himself.