She was Hector’s wife. The name means "battle of a man", from (andros) "of a man" and (machē) "battle". During the Trojan War, Hector was killed by Achilles, and their son Astyanax was thrown from the city walls by the Greek Herald Talthybius. Neoptolemus took Andromache as a concubine and Hector's brother, Helenus, as a slave. 175 Andromache, is the name of an asteroid.