ABSTRACT
When he was dead and Troy had fallen, Andromache’s baby was thrown off the walls of Troy, and she was taken off into captivity by Neoptolemus, Achilles’ son. He had three sons by her, Molossus, Pielus, and Pergamus; but later he married Hermione-daughter of Menelaus and Helen-who, being childless, begrudged Andromache her fruitful womb. Whether this occurred, as Euripides says, in Phthia (where Peleus defended Andromache and her children from Hermione’s anger while Neoptolemus was away at Delphi) or in Epirus, Neoptolemus was shortly afterwards killed at Delphi. Then Andromache became the wife of Helenus, the Trojan seer to whom Neoptolemus had given part of Epirus to rule over. According to Virgil’s Aeneid, however, he had already given her to Helenus when he himself married Hermione.
