Historiae Romanorum

Astyanax

Atyanax is the son of Hector and Andromache.

He was still very young at the time of the fall of Troy.  Presumably so that no heir to the throne would survive, he was tossed from the high Trojan walls.

Source(s):

1. Homer.  Iliad.

2. Ovid.  Metamorphoses.

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