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What does Astyanax mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (mythology) The nickname of Scamandrius, child son of Hector and Andromache.
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His murder of Priam or Astyanax is a common theme in Greek and Roman Art.
The scandalous behaviour of all concerned in astyanax may well have caused a falling-off in the subscriptions.
Hector enters the city, urges prayers and sacrifices, incites Paris to battle, bids his wife Andromache and son Astyanax farewell on the city walls, and rejoins the battle.
Sam Gawn is taken to repeat last year's victory over Astyanax in the Members Race.
Who was it but old Priam, to whom Andromache used to lead little Astyanax?
Pyrrhus wooes her, promising that if she become his wife, her son astyanax shall be made king of Troy.

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