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ANDROMACHA. Andromache, daughter of Eetion of Thebes, was Hector's wife and the mother of Astyanax.

Chauntecleer recalls Andromacha's dream of Hector's death, NPT 3141-3147. R.A. Pratt points out that his version closely follows that in Renart le Contrefait 31323-31340. Benoît gives a version in Roman de Troie 15263-15355; Dares summarizes the dream, De excidio Troiae historia (The Fall of Troy, a History), 24. [Ector]

Andromacha occurs once, NPT 3141.

Benoît, Roman de Troie, ed. L. Constans, III: 20-26; Dares, De excidio, ed. F. Meister, 28-30; ibid., The Trojan War, trans. R.M. Frazer, 152-153; R.A. Pratt, "Three Old French Sources of the Nonnes Preestes Tale." Speculum 47 (1972): 649.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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