Astyanax

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Translingual

Astyanax mexicanus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀστυάναξ (Astuánax), nickname of the firstborn son of Hector. Some species epithets also refer to the Trojan War.

Proper noun

Astyanax m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Characidae – numerous fish, including some of the tetras.

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Astyanax being thrown from the walls of Troy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀστυάναξ (Astuánax, city lord), the nickname for the firstborn son of Hector, protector of Troy.

Proper noun

Astyanax

  1. (Greek mythology) The nickname of Scamandrius, child son of Hector and Andromache.
    • 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, , 1819, The Distrest Mother: A Tragedy, Act 1, Scene 1, page 3,
      The jealous chiefs, and all the states of Greece, / With one united voice complain of Pyrrhus; / That now, forgetful of the promise giv'n, / And mindless of his godlike father's fate, / Astyanax he nurses in his court; Astyanax, the young, surviving hope / Of ruin'd Troy; Astyanax descended / From a long race of kings—great Hector's son.
    • 1983, Norman T. Pratt, Seneca's Drama, page 110:
      After lying that the boy is dead and defying the threat of torture, she is unable to conceal her anguish for the boy's life and gives in to the threat that Hector's tomb will be destroyed if Astyanax is dead, that is, to the threat that both the sanctity of the tomb and the life of the boy will be destroyed together.
    • 2008, Roland Racevskis, Tragic Passages: Jean Racine's Art of the Threshold, page 85:
      In this passage, Andromaque sees Astyanax only through the memorializing lens of his attribution to Hector, his status as "gage."