Fan with a Scene of Hector's Farewell to his Family

Hector is depicted at the moment when he reaches out to Astyanax, held by Andromache. The child, frightened at the sight of a basinet and shiny armour, turns his head away. The maker of the painted decoration on the fan was only partially faithful to the literary model. He enhanced the scene by adding more characters: Eniopeus driving Hector's chariot, and some soldiers and Trojan women, but he dispensed with the servant, who in Homer's version hands Astyanax to his father.