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Andromache, the daughter of Eėtion, king of Cilician Thebe and wife of Hector, by whom she had a son named Scamandrius or Astyanax. She lost her father and her seven brothers at the capture of Thebe, her husband in the defence of Troy, and her son on the fall of the latter city, when she became the prize of Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, to whom she bore three sons, Molossus, Pielius, and Perga-mus. On the death of Pyrrhus she became the wife of Helenus, brother of Hector and ruler of Chaonia, a part of Epirus, by whom she had a son called Cestrinus.
 
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