Andromache is utterly crestfallen at news of her husband Hector's death. Even though she foretold his demise, it's still incredibly hard for her to handle. So she weeps and wails bitterly over her loss, beginning the formal process of mourning with her loud, heartfelt lamentations.

All this was caused by Achilles, the Achaeans' greatest warrior. For what seemed like an eternity, he sat sulking in his tent while his comrades were getting slaughtered on the field of battle. And all because Agamemnon commandeered his sex-slave as a replacement for the one he had to return to her father in order to appease the terrible wrath of the gods. But eventually Achilles ventured outside to do battle with the Trojans, not because of the lavish bribes he'd been offered by Agamemnon, but to take revenge on Hector, breaker of horses, for killing his bosom buddy Patroclus.

After Achilles slays Hector, he drags his broken corpse three times around the city walls in his battle chariot. He's still so infuriated at Hector's killing Patroclus that he only agrees to release his body for a proper burial after an intervention from the gods. In any case, the damage has been done, and Andromache, as with the rest of Hector's family, can only grieve over the loss brought about by the insatiable wrath of Achilles.