How Does Astyanax Die?

James H. Sterling
James H. Sterling
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After the Fall of Troy Fall of Troy the Greeks Won the Trojan War. According to the Roman Epic Poet Virgil, the Trojans Were Defeated After the Greeks Left...

How Does Astyanax Die?

After the fall of Troy

fall of Troy
The Greeks won the Trojan War. According to the Roman epic poet Virgil, the Trojans were defeated after the Greeks left behind a large wooden horse and pretended to sail for home. Unbeknown to the Trojans, the wooden horse was filled with Greek warriors.
, Astyanax was hurled from the battlements of the city by either Odysseus or the Greek warrior—and son of Achilles—Neoptolemus. His death is described in the last epics of the so-called epic cycle (a collection of post-Homeric Greek poetry), The Little Iliad and The Sack of Troy.

What killed Achilles?

Achilles is killed by an arrow, shot by the Trojan prince Paris. In most versions of the story, the god Apollo is said to have guided the arrow into his vulnerable spot, his heel.

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Andromache was the daughter of Eëtion, according to the Iliad. He was the king of Cilician Thebe. Andromache's mother, Eëtion's wife, is not named. She was captured in the raid that killed Eëtion and his seven sons, and after her release, she died in Troy at the instigation of the goddess Artemis.

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