A devoted wife and mother, she lost her husband and son in the trojan war, after which she herself was taken to greece as a captive. The old king, notwithstanding the remonstrances of his queen, makes ready for the journey, to which he is encouraged by an. Jupiter sends thetis to achilles, to dispose him for the restoring it, and iris to priam, to encourage him to go in person and treat for it.
Hector consults within himself what measures to take; Hecuba joins her entreaties, but in vain. Hector also, casting a stone of vast size, forces open one of the gates, and enters at the head of his troops, who victoriously pursue the grecians even to their ships.
But soon returns with ajax, and drives him off. But at the advance of achilles, his resolution fails him, and he flies. Helenus, the chief augur of troy, commands hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the trojan matrons to the temple of minerva, to entreat her to remove diomed from the fight. Penthesilea was the last of the great amazon queens.
During the tenth year of the trojan war, she fought bravely alongside the trojans before falling to the greek hero achilles. Argument the episodes of glaucus and diomed, and of hector and andromache the gods having left the field, the grecians prevail. Argument the death of hector the trojans being safe within the walls, hector only stays to oppose achilles. Astyanax (also called scamandrius) was the son of hector and andromache, a prince and princess of troy.
This, glaucus objects to hector as a flight, who thereupon puts on the armour he had won from patroclus, and renews the battle. In the end, he was slain by achilles, the greatest of the greek warriors. During the sack of troy, astyanax—still a small child—was viciously killed by either neoptolemus or odysseus, who hurled him from the city walls. This hector opposes, and continues the attack;
Andromache, daughter of king eetion of cilician thebes, was the wife of hector and mother of astyanax. During the trojan war, he was instrumental in helping the greeks retrieve helen and decimate troy. In which, after many actions, sarpedon makes the first breach in the wall. Swift and fierce achilles was one of the greatest warriors of greek mythology.