Crossword-Solution: ASTYANAX 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The Greeks, after burning the city, sacrifice Polyxena at the tomb of Achilles: Odysseus murders Astyanax; Neoptolemus takes Andromache as his prize, and the remaining spoils are divided.

Fragment #3—Scholiast on Euripedes, Andromache 10: The Cyclic poet who composed the _Sack_ says that Astyanax was also hurled from the city wall.

The boy was of a form and face which might have entitled him to represent Astyanax, and Hector of Troy might have pressed him to his bosom, and called him his pride; but the old man was, perhaps, such a shape as Milton has alluded to, but could only describe as execrable—he wanted but the dart and kingly crown to have represented the monster who opposed the progress of Lucifer, whilst careering in burning arms and infernal glory to the outlet of his hellish prison.

LXX "Of Trojan ancestors are we the seed, Through famous Hector's line," (Rogero said,) "For after young Astyanax was freed, From fierce Ulysses and the toils he spread, Leaving another stripling in his stead, Of his own age, he out of Phrygia fled.

Yea, also did those Danaan car-lords hurl From a high tower the babe Astyanax, Dashing him out of life.