·Direct
The maid later identified as the child’s nurse is with Andromache on the wall.
See evidence text
“for she was on the wall with her child and one of her maids, weeping bitterly”
Character · Individual
nurse of Hector’s son
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- nurse of Hector’s son
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Character
- Scope
- Individual
- Editorial note
- The recurring nurse who accompanies Andromache and carries the infant.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Location presence
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Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
wall of Ilius2 observations
·Reported
The housekeeper reports that the nurse went with Andromache to the wall.
See evidence text
“she went to the wall in frenzied haste, and the nurse went with her carrying the child”
Scaean gates1 observation
·Direct
The nurse accompanies Andromache to Hector at the Scaean gates.
See evidence text
“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”
Claims
4
·Reported
The housekeeper says the nurse accompanied Andromache carrying the child.
See evidence text
“the nurse went with her carrying the child”
·Direct
The nurse carries Hector’s infant son in her bosom.
See evidence text
“a nurse who carried his little child in her bosom—a mere babe”
·Direct
The frightened infant nestles into his nurse’s bosom.
See evidence text
“the boy cried and nestled in his nurse’s bosom, scared at the sight of his father’s armour”
·Remembered
Andromache remembers Astyanax sleeping in his nurse’s arms on a soft couch without want or care.
See evidence text
“he would lie in a bed, in the arms of his nurse, on a soft couch, knowing neither want nor care”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
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Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
·Direct
“the nurse went with her carrying the child”