Deidamia

Role: daughter of Lycomedes · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.13

Life events

• Achilles was hidden at Lycomedes' court, fathered Pyrrhus, was exposed, and went to Troy.(Apollodorus, Library 3.13 · 📍 Troy)
  • With: Achilles Thetis Lycomedes Neoptolemus Odysseus
  • “When Achilles was nine years old, Calchas declared that Troy could not be taken without him; so Thetis, foreseeing that it was fated he should perish if he went to the war, disguised him in female garb and entrusted him as a maiden to Lycomedes. Bred at his court, Achilles had an intrigue with Deidamia, daughter of Lycomedes, and a son Pyrrhus was born to him, who was afterwards called Neoptolemus. But the secret of Achilles was betrayed, and Ulysses, seeking him at the court of Lycomedes, discovered him by the blast of a trumpet. And in that way Achilles went to Troy”

Apollodorus, Library 3.13

• parent: Lycomedes “Deidamia, daughter of Lycomedes”
• courtship with Achilles “Achilles had an intrigue with Deidamia”
• child: Neoptolemus “Achilles had an intrigue with Deidamia, daughter of Lycomedes, and a son Pyrrhus was born to him”

Apollodorus, Epitome 6

• married with Helenus “Neoptolemus gave him his mother Deidamia to wife”

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