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Andromache
Cassandra watched one of the most poignant and tragic scenes was that when the Trojans’ great hero Hector was leaving for fighting with Achilles, his wife Andromache pleaded with him to withdraw from the fighting, accompanied by a nurse and their infant son, She pleased, “Dearest, your own great strength will be your death, and you have no pity on your little son, nor on me, ill-starred, who soon must be your widow …” She reminds Hector that all of her family have already been killed in the war, including her father and seven brothers. “Hector, thus it is you are a father to me, and my honored mother, you are my brother, and you it is who are my young husband. Please take pity upon me then, stay here on the rampart, that you may not leave your child an orphan, your wife a widow … “ .....Read Quest of Olympias and know more about the fate of Andromache...Sivkishen, Author