bereaved survivor whose family is replaced by spouse

greek

• The Iliad THE ACTS OF DIOMED. / BOOK VI. / ARGUMENT. / THE EPISODES OF GLAUCUS AND DIOMED, AND OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.; lines 7340-7487 confidence: high

  Andromache, tearful and foreboding, warns Hector that she may become a widow and their son an orphan; she recounts Achilles’ destruction of Thebe, the death and burial of Aetion, the deaths of her seven brothers, and her mother’s death after captivity and ransom.

  Andromache recounts the deaths of her father and brothers and says she sees father, mother, and brethren all in Hector.

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