在古希腊神话中，阿斯蒂亚纳克斯是特洛伊的长子、特洛伊王储赫克托的国王普里阿摩斯和赫克托的妻子安德罗马赫公主的儿子。

阿斯蒂亚纳克斯的出生名字实际上是斯加曼德里奥斯，与附近的斯加曼德尔河同名，但特洛伊人给他起了一个绰号阿斯蒂亚纳克斯，这个绰号被特洛伊人翻译成了最高国王或城市的霸主，因为他是城市最伟大的捍卫者的儿子。

阿斯蒂亚纳克斯的命运

当特洛伊战争爆发时，阿斯蒂亚纳克斯还是个孩子。他还没有到参加战斗的年龄，因此，安德洛马赫把阿斯特亚纳克斯藏在了赫克托的坟墓里。然而，阿斯蒂亚纳克斯的藏身之处最终被发现，他的命运随后被希腊人争论。他们担心，如果阿斯蒂亚纳克斯被允许活着，他会带着复仇回来重建特洛伊城，为他的父亲报仇。因此，决定阿斯特亚纳克斯不能活了，阿基里斯的儿子尼奥托莱姆斯（Neoptolemus，根据《伊利亚特六世》，403466年和埃涅伊德二世，457年）把他从特洛伊城墙上扔了下来。

《伊利亚特》中描述了阿斯蒂亚纳克斯在特洛伊战争中的角色：

“So saying, glorious Hector stretched out his arms to his boy, but back into the bosom of his fair-girdled nurse shrank the child crying, affrighted at the aspect of his dear father, and seized with dread of the bronze and the crest of horse-hair, [470] as he marked it waving dreadfully from the topmost helm. Aloud then laughed his dear father and queenly mother; and forthwith glorious Hector took the helm from his head and laid it all-gleaming upon the ground. But he kissed his dear son, and fondled him in his arms, [475] and spoke in prayer to Zeus and the other gods: “Zeus and ye other gods, grant that this my child may likewise prove, even as I, pre-eminent amid the Trojans, and as valiant in might, and that he rule mightily over Ilios. And some day may some man say of him as he cometh back from war, ‘He is better far than his father’; [480] and may he bear the blood-stained spoils of the foeman he hath slain, and may his mother's heart wax glad.”

有很多关于特洛伊战争的重述，实际上阿斯蒂亚纳克斯在特洛伊城的全面毁灭中幸存下来并继续生存。

阿斯蒂亚纳克斯的血统和假定的生存

通过《大英百科全书》对Astyanax的描述：

“Astyanax, in Greek legend, prince who was the son of the Trojan prince Hector and his wife Andromache. Hector named him Scamandrius after the River Scamander, near Troy Iliad, Homer relates that Astyanax disrupted the last meeting of his parents by crying at the sight of his father’s plumed helmet. After the fall of Troy, Astyanax was hurled from the battlements of the city by either Odysseus or the Greek warrior—and son of Achilles—Neoptolemus. His death is described in the last epics of the so-called epic cycle (a collection of post-Homeric Greek poetry), The Little Iliad and The Sack of Troy. The best-known extant description of the death of Astyanax is in Euripides ’ tragedy Trojan Women (415 bc). In ancient art his death is often linked with the slaying of Troy’s King Priam by Neoptolemus. According to medieval legend, however, he survived the war, established the kingdom of Messina in Sicily, and founded the line that led to Charlemagne.”