Neoptolemus killing Priam

In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus, also Neoptólemos or Pyrrhus, was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamea. Achilles' mother foretold many years before Achilles birth that there would be a great war. She saw that her only son was to die if he fought in the war. She sought a place for him to avoid fighting in the Trojan War, due to a prophecy of his death in the conflict. She disguised him as a woman in the court of Lycomedes, the King of Scyros. During that time, he had an affair with the princess, Deidamea, who then gave birth to Neoptolemus. Neoptolemus was originally called Pyrrhus, because the female version of that name, Pyrrha, had been taken by his father while disguised as a woman. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1845x1800, 2113 KB) Description fr: Priam tué par Néoptolème, fils dAchille. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1845x1800, 2113 KB) Description fr: Priam tué par Néoptolème, fils dAchille. ... The Oricoli bust of Zeus, King of the Gods, in the collection of the Vatican Museum. ... The Wrath of Achilles, by François-Léon Benouville (1821–1859) (Musée Fabre) In Greek mythology, Achilles, also Akhilleus or Achilleus (Ancient Greek ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homers Iliad, which takes for its theme, not the War... In Greek mythology, Deidamea, or Deidamia, was the daughter of Lycomedes, King of Scyros. ... For the 1997 romantic comedy, see Trojan War (film). ... In Greek mythology, Lycomedes (also known as Lycurgus) was the King of Skyros during the Trojan War. ... Skyros (Greek: Σκύρος) is the southernmost island of the Sporades, a Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea. ... In Greek mythology, Deidamea, or Deidamia, was the daughter of Lycomedes, King of Scyros. ...

Nine years later in the war, after the death of Achilles and Ajax the Great and no signs of victory for the Greeks, the Greeks captured the Trojan seer, Helenus, and forced him to tell them under what conditions could they take Troy. Helenus revealed to them that they could defeat Troy if they could acquire the poisonous arrows of Heracles (then in Philoctetes' possession); steal the Palladium (which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy); and put Achilles' son in the war. Ajax, or Aias (Greek: ), was a king of Salamis, and a legendary hero of ancient Greece. ... In Greek mythology, Helenus was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. ... Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) For other uses, see Heracles (disambiguation). ... In Greek mythology, Philoctetes (also Philoktêtês or Philocthetes, Φιλοκτήτης) was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Palladion. ... // The Trojan Horse is part of the myth of the Trojan War, as told in Virgils Latin epic poem The Aeneid. ...

Another version of the events on the Classical Greek amphora

In response to the prophecy, the Greeks took steps to retrieve the arrows of Heracles and bring Neoptolemus to Troy. Odysseus was sent to retrieve Neoptolemus from Scyros. The two then went to Lemnos to retrieve Philoctetes. Years earlier, on the way to Troy, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake on Chryse. Agamemnon had advised that he be left behind because the wound was festering and smelled bad. This retrieval is the plot of Philoctetes, a play by Sophocles. Image File history File links DE003722. ... Image File history File links DE003722. ... Lemnos (mod. ... In Greek mythology, Philoctetes (also Philoktêtês or Philocthetes, Φιλοκτήτης) was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. ... This article is about the people and places of Greek myth. ... The Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles written about 410 BC. Its subject is Philoctetes, the friend of Herakles, who was also a participant in the Trojan War. ... Sophocles, as depicted in the Nordisk familjebok. ...

Like his father Achilles, a barbaric warrior who had only shown mercy to Priam because the gods demanded it, Neoptolemus was savage and cruel. During and after the war, he killed Priam, Eurypylus, Polyxena, Polites and Astyanax, among others, enslaved Helenus and forced Andromache to become his concubine. The ghost of Achilles appeared to the survivors of the war, demanding Polyxena, the Trojan princess, be sacrificed before anybody could leave. Neoptolemus did so. With Andromache, Helenus and Phoenix, Neoptolemus sailed to the Epirot Islands and then became the king of Epirus. With the enslaved Andromache, Neoptolemus was the father of Molossus and, according to the myth, an ancestor of Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great. In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Πρίαμος) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, and son of Laomedon. ... The twelve gods of Olympus. ... In Greek mythology, Eurypylus (Greek: Εὐρύπυλος) was the name of several different people. ... For the Christian Saint, please see Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca Polyxena dies by the hand of Neoptolemus on the tomb of Achilles. ... In Greek mythology, Polites referred to two different people. ... In Greek mythology, Astyanax (Greek Ἀστυάναξ, prince of the city) was the son of Hector and Andromache. ... In Greek mythology, Helenus was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. ... Andromache grieves the loss of Hector In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, sister to Podes. ... A swampy marsh area ... For the Christian Saint, please see Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca Polyxena dies by the hand of Neoptolemus on the tomb of Achilles. ... In the Greek epic Iliad, Phoenix is one of Achilles men, who along with Odysseus and Ajax the Great urges Achilles to re-enter battle, giving the most passionate speech of the three. ... Epirote Islands are considered those northern Ionian islands that are in close proximity to the Epirus mainland. ... Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípiros) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe. ... Molossus has several meanings: In Greek mythology, Molossus was the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache. ... Olympias (Greek: Ολυμπιάς) (c. ... For the film of the same name, see Alexander the Great (1956 film). ...

Although Neoptolemus is often depicted as being cruel and savage, the play 'Philoctetes' by Sophocles shows him being a much kinder man, who honours his promises and shows remorse when he is made to trick Philoctetes. Sophocles, as depicted in the Nordisk familjebok. ...

Two accounts deal with Neoptolemus' death. He was either killed after he attempted to take Hermione from Orestes as her father Menelaus promised, or after he denounced Apollo, the murderer of his father. In the first case, he was killed by Orestes. In the second, revenge was taken by the Delphian priests of Apollo. For the Harry Potter series character, see Hermione Granger. ... The Remorse of Orestes by William-Adolphe Bouguereau For other uses, see Orestes (disambiguation). ... Menelaus regains Helen, detail of an Attic red-figure crater, ca. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ... The amphitheatre, seen from above. ...

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