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Neoptolemus (Greek mythology)


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    • Pyrrhus (Greek mythology)
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    • found: Work cat.: Merlis, M. An arrow's flight, 1998:prelim. p. (Pyrrhus, or Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and Deidameia)
    • found: Bulfinch's mythology, Sept. 25, 1998(While there, his youngest son Polites, pursued by Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus), the son of Achilles ...)
    • found: Britannica Online, Sept. 25, 1998(In Greek legend, the son of Achilles, the hero of the Greek army ...; he was sometimes called Pyrrhus, meaning fair; Greek warrior Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) ... When the captives were allotted [after the fall of Troy], Andromache [Hector's wife] fell to Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus), the son of Achilles, whom she accompanied to Epirus and to whom she bore three sons. Neoptolemus was slain at Delphi.)
    • found: WWW. The Age of Fable:Chapter XXVIII, The Fall of Troy (The death of [his son] Hector, which signified the end of Troy's hopes, also broke the spirit of the king [i.e. Priam]. Priam's paternal love impelled him to brave the savage anger of Achilles and to ransom the corpse of Hector; Achilles, respecting the old man's feelings and foreseeing his own father's sorrows, returned the corpse. When Troy fell, Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, butchered the old king on an altar.)
    • found: Columbia encyc., 3rd ed., 1963(Pyrrhus, in Greek legend; see Neoptolemus)
    • found: Soewito, N. Neoptolemus(Neoptolemus, also sometimes called Pyrrhus, was the only son of Achilles ...)
    • found: Encyc. mythica, Sept. 25, 1998(Neoptolemus, also called Pyrrhus)
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    • 1998-10-02: new
    • 1998-11-04: revised
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