Neoptolemus
Greek · quartigod · trojan war · quartigod
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
Domains
- war
Powers
- Take Troy from within the Wooden Horse
- Cut down King Priam at the household altar
Relations
- spouse: Hermione
- lover: Andromache
- enemy: Orestes