Astyanax
Astyanax ( ancient Greek Ἀστυάναξ "prince of the city"), nickname Skamandrios , was after Homer the son of the Trojan king's son Hector and his wife Andromache .
In Homer's Iliad , the touching farewell to his parents is described before his father goes into battle with Achilles and is killed by him. Little Astyanax himself is killed after the conquest of Troy to prevent him from avenging his father's death later . How he dies varies depending on the version of the story: either he is killed on the advice of Odysseus , unless he is killed by Odysseus himself, or Neoptolemus , son of Achilles and Deidameia , pushes Astyanax off the walls of the burning Troy. Ovid, however, only reports that he was thrown from the tower of the city.
According to later versions of the legend, Astyanax remains alive and founds a new Troy or fled to Gaul under the name of Francus .
Astyanax is also the title character of a poem in the cycle Mythistorima by Giorgos Seferis . He also appears in the poem "The Aegean Sadness" (German: "The Aegean Sadness") as part of the cycle of poems Apollo by John Fowles .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Astyanax 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 660 ( digitized version ).
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Remarks
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 6,402 ff.
- ^ So in the Iliu persis des Arktinos with Clemens Alexandrinus , Stromateis 6,747.
- ↑ Triphiodoros, Excidium Ilii 644.
- ↑ So Pausanias 10,25,9; Tzetzes , ad Lycophronem 1263.
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 13,415.
- ↑ Scholion to Iliad 24,735.
- ^ John Fowles: Selected Poems . Ed .: Adam Thorpe. Flambard Press, Hexham 2012, pp. 24 .