Andromache (English spelling)

Japanese: アンドロマケ(英語表記)Andromachē
Andromache (English spelling)
A Greek tragedy by Euripides written in the early stages of the Peloponnesian War (420s BCE). After the fall of Troy, Andromache, wife of the Trojan hero Hector, became a concubine to Neoptolemus, King of Thessaly, son of Achilles, and bore him a child. Hermione, Andromache's wife, conspired with her father, King Menelaus of Sparta, to kill Andromache and her son, but was prevented by Neoptolemus' grandfather Peleus. Meanwhile, Orestes, Hermione's former fiancé and cousin, kills Neoptolemus in Delphi and takes Hermione away. The author portrays the three Peloponnesians, Menelaus, Orestes, and Hermione, as villains, representing the general hostility toward Sparta among Athenians at the time.

Andromache
Andromache

A character in Greek mythology. She married Hector, the eldest son of King Priam and commander-in-chief of the Trojan War, and gave birth to Astyanax. However, her husband was killed in battle by Achilles, and after the fall of Troy, Astyanax was also slaughtered by the Greek army. She was taken as a spoil by Achilles' son Neoptolemus, who had to become her wife. After giving birth to three sons from this marriage, when Neoptolemus died, she remarried Hector's brother Helenus, and together they ruled Epirus. After his death, she returned to Mysia in Asia Minor with her son Pergamos, where they founded the city of Pergamon.

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Japanese:
ギリシアのエウリピデスの悲劇。ペロポネソス戦争初期 (前 420年代) の作。トロイの英雄ヘクトルの妻アンドロマケは,トロイ落城後アキレウスの子でテッサリア王のネオプトレモスの侍妾となって1子をもうけた。正室のヘルミオネは父のスパルタ王メネラオスとはかってアンドロマケ母子を殺そうとするが,ネオプトレモスの祖父ペレウスにはばまれる。一方,ヘルミオネの前の婚約者で従兄のオレステスがデルフォイでネオプトレモスを殺して,ヘルミオネを奪い去る。作者はメネラオス,オレステス,ヘルミオネの3人のペロポネソス人を悪玉として描き,当時のアテネ人一般のスパルタに対する敵対感情を代弁している。

アンドロマケ
Andromachē

ギリシア神話の人物。プリアモス王の長子で,トロイ戦争におけるトロイ方の総大将であったヘクトルの妻となり,アステュアナクスを生んだが,夫はアキレウスに打取られて戦死したうえに,トロイ落城後,アステュアナクスもギリシア軍に惨殺され,彼女は戦利品としてアキレウスの息子ネオプトレモスの手に落ち,その妻とならねばならなかった。この結婚で3人の息子を生んだあと,ネオプトレモスが死ぬと,彼女はヘクトルの弟ヘレノスと再婚し,ともにエピロスを支配した。彼の死後,息子のペルガモスとともに再び小アジアのミュシアに行き,そこにペルガモンの町を建設したという。

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