In Greek mythology, Andromache (/ænˈdrɒməkiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη, Andromákhē [andromákʰɛ:]) was the wife of Hector, daughter of Eetion, and sister...
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Andromache is a figure from Greek mythology, the wife of Hector. Andromache may also refer to: Andromache, queen of the Amazons Andromache, one of the...
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Andromache Dimitropoulou (Greek: Ανδρομάχη Δημητροπούλου, IPA: [anðroˈmaçi ðimitroˈpulu]; born 12 October 1994), known professionally as Andromache and...
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Andromache (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides. It dramatises Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan...
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Andromache Mourning Hector is a 1783 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. The painting depicts an image from Homer's...
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Andromache Karakatsanis (born October 3, 1955) is a Canadian jurist. She was nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada by Stephen Harper in October 2011...
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borne the name HMS Andromache, after the figure of Andromache in Greek mythology. A fifth was planned but never completed. HMS Andromache (1781) was a 32-gun...
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Andromaque (redirect from Andromache (Racine))
reputation as one of the great playwrights in France. Euripides' play Andromache and the third book of Virgil's Aeneid were the points of departure for...
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175 Andromache is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Canadian-American astronomer J. C. Watson on October 1, 1877, and named after Andromache, wife...
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Polites and Astyanax (Hector and Andromache's infant son) among others). He captured Helenus, and made Andromache his concubine. The ghost of Achilles...
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was the son of Hector, the crown prince of Troy, and his wife, Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe. His birth name was Scamandrius (in Greek: Σκαμάνδριος...
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Captive Andromache is an oil painting on a 197 cm × 407 cm canvas by Frederic Leighton produced in ca. 1888. The subject is from Homer's Iliad. The painting...
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Andromache is a rural locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Andromache had a population of 17 people. Named after...
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Farewell of Hector to Andromache is a painting by the Russian artist Anton Losenko (1737–1773), painted in 1773. The painting is held in the State Tretyakov...
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Andromache is an opera in two acts with words and music by Herbert Windt. The opera is based on the play Andromache by Euripides, as well as Racine's...
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Catocala andromache, the Andromache underwing, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Henry Edwards in 1885. It is found...
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Neoptolemos, your present husband, if he, in return captured the city. — Andromache 969, translation by George Theodoridis Ovid, on the contrary, says that...
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Mount Andromache is a 3,033-metre (9,951-foot) mountain summit located in the Bow River valley of Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta...
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Andromache Books is a United Kingdom based, independent, not-for-profit publishing firm, run as a writers' cooperative by the writers themselves. It was...
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Amazons (redirect from Andromache (Amazon))
This list is unique in its attestation for all the names but Antianeira, Andromache and Hippothoe. Other than these three, the remaining 17 Amazons were named...
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HMS Andromache was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1781 and served for 29 years until she was broken up...
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Euripides' play Andromache, a play set after the Trojan War, when Achilles' son Neoptolemus (in some translations named Pyrrhus) has taken Andromache, the widow...
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Troides andromache, the Borneo birdwing or Kinabalu Birdwing, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found only in Borneo. In 2023...
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Acraea andromacha (redirect from Acraea andromache)
Species: A. andromacha Binomial name Acraea andromacha (Fabricius, 1775) Synonyms Papilio andromacha Acraea entoria Acraea theodote Acraea andromache...
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the war at Scyrus, but the Greeks retrieved him. Neoptolemus had taken Andromache, Helenus's sister-in-law and Hector's widow, as a slave and concubine...
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Greek: Μολοσσός, romanized: Molossós) was the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache. He was the eponymous founder of the Molossians, an ancient Greek tribe...
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The Swan (Baudelaire) (section Andromache)
alexandrines. Its crossed rhyme scheme alternates male and female endings. Andromache, married to Hector —a hero killed by Achilles during the Trojan War— after...
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prince of the royal house and heir to his father’s throne. Hector weds Andromache, the mother of his first and only son, Scamandrius, whom the people of...
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HMS Andromache was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1832. She was assigned to the North America and West Indies Station, based at the Imperial fortress...
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cousin's death and vows revenge. Wary of Achilles, Hector shows his wife Andromache a secret tunnel beneath Troy. Should he die and the city fall, he instructs...
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