Neoptolemus
Greek · quartigod · trojan war · Recorded classification
Quartigod son of Achilles by Deidamia of Scyros, called Pyrrhus at birth. Indispensable to the fall of Troy, he was fetched from Scyros by Odysseus, hid in the wooden horse, and at the sack killed Priam at the altar and flung Astyanax from the walls. He took Andromache as concubine (fathering Molossus, eponym of the Molossians) and married Hermione, the contested betrothed of Orestes; for that quarrel he was slain at Delphi and buried in the sanctuary, where he received hero-cult. He is the unregistered husband named in the registry Hermione entry.
Parentage
- paternal: Achilles
Domains
- war
Powers
- Take Troy from within the Wooden Horse
- Cut down King Priam at the household altar
Relations
- spouse: HermioneReciprocal spouse/former-spouse edge now declared.Hom. Od. 4.5-9; Eur. Andr.; Apollod. Epit. 6.12-14 (primary)
- lover: AndromacheEur. Andr.; Apollod. Epit. 6.12 (primary)
- enemy: OrestesEur. Andr. 993-1008; Apollod. Epit. 6.14 (primary)
- killer of: Priam (last king of Troy, slain by Neoptolemus at the altar of Zeus Herkeios) · GreekPriam is the registered figure greek_priam; Neoptolemus slew him at the household altar during the sack. Killed-by edge to be added on greek_priam.Verg. Aen. 2.526-558; Apollod. Epit. 5.21 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Homer, Iliad 19.326-327, Odyssey 4.5-9, 11.506-537; Apollodorus 3.13.8, Epitome 5.10-11, 5.21-22, 6.12-14; Sophocles, Philoctetes; Euripides, Andromache; Virgil, Aeneid 2.469-558; Pausanias 10.24.6 (primary)
- parentage: Homer, Iliad 19.326-327; Apollodorus 3.13.8 (son of Achilles and Deidamia) (primary)