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Andromache was the loving wife of the Trojan Hector and the mother of their son Astyanax, until Hector was killed, Troy destroyed, and Andromache taken by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, by whom she bore Amphialus, Molossus, Pielus, and Pergamus.
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