#laodice

let’s reveal the results (I tried to avoid doubling up dates so some will be using their runner up method)

Three daughters have I in my well-builded hall, Chrysothemis, and Laodice, and Iphianassa; of these let him lead to the house of Peleus which one he will, without gifts of wooing, and I will furthermore give a dower full rich, such as no man ever yet gave with his daughter.

This is from the Andromache scholium 10, with the brackets inserted by the Center for Hellenic Studies, who clarify that the source for this, Dionysius of Chalcis, lived in the 4th century BC. This isn't just some Roman/Medieval fix-it-fic or whatever, it is ancient.

Stesichorus attests that he [Astyanax] was killed, and the poet of the Cycle who composed the Iliou Persis attests that he [Astyanax] was thrown off the walls of Troy. And Euripides has followed this tradition. But there are those who say that he [the son of Hector] founded cities and ruled as king over them, and the opinions of these sources are written up by Lysimachus [3rd century BC] in the second book of his Nostoi: “Dionysius of Chalkis [4th century BC] says that Acamas [of Athens], having taken--through his ties with Laodice--Scamandrius the son of Hector and Ascanius the son of Aeneas from Helenus and from Anchises, attempted to fortify with walls Ilion and Dardanus, but, when the Athenians entreated him not to do so, then, having stopped his attempt at controlling the region of Troy, went on to found the cities of Gergis, Perkōtē, Kolōnai, Khrusē, Ophrynion, Sidēnē, Astyra, Scepsis, Polikhnē, and in addition to these, Daskyleion and Iliou Kolōnē and Arisba, designating as founders of these cities Scamandrius and Ascanius.”

Ahhhh I love this so much for so many reasons.

First of all, Aegeidae W + Laodice W kidnapping the kids before they could be killed at Troy (it's, like, not even really kidnapping considering Astyanax is just as much her nephew as he is Helenus')

My headcanon for how this happened is that Acamas claimed to have thrown the kids off the walls of Troy himself, right into a pyre onto which they were already burning. So their bodies "couldn't be recovered." Meanwhile, as Andromache wailed, the children were rushed off by Laodice, Acamas' fiance. He then reunited with them, his brother Demophon, aunt Clymene, grandma Aethra, and son Munitus before all 8 of them rushed off to Thrace. Demophon went back to Athens, but figured his family would be safest in Thrace, as Tzetzes says iirc.

Can also headcanon that Acamas, after tragically losing Munitus and Laodice, reunited Scamandrius with his mother Andromache + Helenus, and invited them back to the Trojan cities he had helped to rebuild.

Oh, that is an unfair question indeed for they are all dear to me in their own way.

My sister Ilione holds a special place in my heart, especially because she is bound to a man no woman in Troy should ever have been given to. I must protect her. Kassandra, poor soul, is usually with Helenos, and the evenings we spend together are peaceful...quiet reading, gentle conversation, simply holding one another so she can rest. The visions drain her more than most can imagine. Kreusa drives a chariot better than many warriors I know, and training with her is always a delight. Laodike and Polyxena are still so young, yet they are the light of our house.

Andromache and Hector are Mary and Joseph, being the popular kids. Hector insists they use his real horses instead of someone playing the donkey (Deiphobus was disappointed, he wanted to force Paris to do it)

Helenus is the Angel Gabriel. He was originally gonna share the role with Cassandra, but she kept going off-script and was cut

Troilus is the Star. Apollo actually makes him float above the stage and shine with real sunlight

Paris, Deiphobus, and Aeneas were going to play the Three Kings, but Paris and Deiphobus kept purposefully messing each other up. Memnon, Penthesilea, and Eurypylus were brought in as replacements

Deiphobus became Herod with Antenor as his Advisor, whilst Aeneas and Paris were shepherds alongside Anchises and Agelaus

Hecuba oversaw everything backstage, with Helen and Andromache designing the costumes. Aphrodite, Laodice, and Euphorbus did hair and makeup

Paris was in charge of music and Priam was the narrator (though Helen had to keep reminding him of his lines)