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Andromache’s mother

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Canonical name
Andromache’s mother
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Unnamed in Book 6; Andromache remembers her as the former queen under Mt. Placus.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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palace of Priam1 observation
·Remembered

Andromache recalls that Diana took her mother in Priam’s house.

See evidence text
“the archer-queen Diana took her in the house of your father”
Troy1 observation
·Remembered

Andromache recalls that Achilles brought her mother here to Troy as spoil.

See evidence text
“My mother—her who had been queen of all the land under Mt. Placus—he brought hither with the spoil”

Claims

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·Remembered

Andromache remembers her mother, former queen beneath Mt. Placus, captured and ransomed by Achilles before Diana killed her.

See evidence text
“My mother—her who had been queen of all the land under Mt. Placus—he brought hither with the spoil, and freed her for a great sum, but the archer-queen Diana took her in the house of your father”

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·Remembered
“My mother—her who had been queen of all the land under Mt. Placus”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 29

Hector hurried from the house when she had done speaking, and went down the streets by the same way that he had come. When he had gone through the city and had reached the Scaean gates through which he would go out on to the plain, his wife came running towards him, Andromache, daughter of great Eetion who ruled in Thebe under the wooded slopes of Mt. Placus, and was king of the Cilicians. His daughter had married Hector, and now came to meet him with a nurse who carried his little child in her bosom—a mere babe. Hector’s darling son, and lovely as a star. Hector had named him Scamandrius, but the people called him Astyanax, for his father stood alone as chief guardian of Ilius. Hector smiled as he looked upon the boy, but he did not speak, and Andromache stood by him weeping and taking his hand in her own. ‘Dear husband,’ said she, ‘your valour will bring you to destruction; think on your infant son, and on my hapless self who ere long shall be your widow—for the Achaeans will set upon you in a body and kill you. It would be better for me, should I lose you, to lie dead and buried, for I shall have nothing left to comfort me when you are gone, save only sorrow. I have neither father nor mother now. Achilles slew my father when he sacked Thebe the goodly city of the Cilicians. He slew him, but did not for very shame despoil him; when he had burned him in his wondrous armour, he raised a barrow over his ashes and the mountain nymphs, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, planted a grove of elms about his tomb. I had seven brothers in my father’s house, but on the same day they all went within the house of Hades. Achilles killed them as they were with their sheep and cattle. My mother—her who had been queen of all the land under Mt. Placus—he brought hither with the spoil, and freed her for a great sum, but the archer-queen Diana took her in the house of your father. Nay—Hector—you who to me are father, mother, brother, and dear husband—have mercy upon me; stay here upon this wall; make not your child fatherless, and your wife a widow; as for the host, place them near the fig-tree, where the city can be best scaled, and the wall is weakest. Thrice have the bravest of them come thither and assailed it, under the two Ajaxes, Idomeneus, the sons of Atreus, and the brave son of Tydeus, either of their own bidding, or because some soothsayer had told them.’