Astyanax
![An engraving showing the child Astyanax thrown from the walls of Troy as his mother Andromache looks on.](/Images/godic/202412/22/Astianax4745.jpg")
![Astyanax, in Andromache's lap, reaches to touch his father's helmet before his duel with Achilles (Apulian red-figure column-crater, ca. 370–360 BC)](/Images/godic/202412/22/Hector_Astyanax_MN_Jatta4745.jpg")
![La Douleur et les Regrets d'Andromaque sur le corps d'Hector son mari par Jacques-Louis David (1783), musée du Louvre.](/Images/godic/202412/22/Jacques-Louis_David-_Andromache_Mourning_Hector4745.JPG")
In Greek mythology, Astyanax (/əˈstaɪ.ənæks/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστυάναξ Astyánax, "protector of the city") was the son of Hector who was Crown Prince of Troy and husband of Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe. His birth name was Scamandrius (in Greek Σκαμάνδριος or Σκάμανδρος, after the river Scamander), but the people of Troy nicknamed him Astyanax (i.e. high king, or overlord of the city), because he was the son of the city's great defender (Iliad VI, 403) and the heir apparent's firstborn son.