Astyanax

Mortal — infant son of Hector and Andromache, called Astyanax ('lord of the city') by the Trojans and Scamandrius by his father. The baby frightened by Hector's helmet-plume in Iliad 6; at the fall of Troy he was thrown from the walls so that no heir of Priam's house should survive to avenge it — the extinction of the male Dardanid line of Ilion (the junior, Aeneadan, branch alone continuing).

Parentage

• paternal: Hector
• maternal: Andromache

Domains

• dynastic doom

Powers

• Embody the extinguished heir of Troy

Epithets

• Ἀστυάναξ greek · Astyanax · by-name'Lord of the city' — the name the Trojans gave Hector's son because Hector alone guarded Ilios; his father called him Scamandrius.Hom. Il. 6.402-403, 22.506-507 (primary)

Relations

• sibling: (no attested siblings — Hector and Andromache's only child) · GreekHom. Il. 6.399-403 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hom. Il. 6.399-403, 466-481, 22.500-507, 24.726-738; Apollod. Epit. 5.23; Eur. Tro. 709-789, 1118-1250 (primary)
• parentage: Hom. Il. 6.399-403, 22.500-507 (primary)