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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Neoptolemus''', also '''Neoptólemos''' or '''Pyrrhus''', was the son of [[Achilles]].

Achilles didn't want to fight in the [[Trojan War]], so he disguised himself as a girl in the court of [[Lycomedes]], the King of [[Scyros]]. During that time, he had an affair with the princess, [[Deidamea]], who gave birth to Neoptolemus.

Ten years later in the war, after the death of Achilles and [[Ajax the great]] and no signs of victory for the Greeks, the Greeks desperately 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 (mythology)|Palladium]] (which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy); and persuade Achilles' son to join the war. The Greeks made haste to fetch Neoptolemus at Scyros, and brought him to Troy.

In contrast to Achilles, a noble warrior who had shown mercy to [[Priam]], Neoptolemus was savage and cruel. He killed Priam, [[Eurypylus]], [[Polyxena]], [[Polites]] and [[Astyanax]], among others, and enslaved [[Helenus]] and [[Andromache]] after the war. With Andromache, Helenus and [[Phoenix]], Neoptolemus sailed to the [[Epirot Islands]] and then became the king of [[Epirus]].

On the way to Troy, [[Philoctetes]] was bitten by a snake on [[Chryse]]. Odysseus advised that he be left behind because the wound was festering and smelled bad. Ten years later, [[Helenus]], under torture, revealed that Philoctetes' arrows (which he received from [[Heracles]]) would be necessary to win the war. Odysseus and Neoptolemus went to [[Lemnos]] to retrieve Philoctetes. This retrieval is the plot of [[Philoctetes (Sophocles)|Philoctetes]], a play by [[Sophocles]].

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. Neoptolemus also sacrificed her father, Priam, to [[Zeus]].

With Andromache, who had been enslaved, Neoptolemus was the father of [[Molossus]] and ancestor of [[Olympias]], the mother of [[Alexander the Great]].

Neoptolemus was killed after he attempted to take [[Hermione (mythology)|Hermione]] from [[Orestes (mythology)|Orestes]] as her father, [[Menelaus]], promised, or after he denounced [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]], the murderer of his father. He was killed by Orestes or some [[Delphi|Delphian]] priests of Apollo.

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 Ten years later in the war, after the death of Achilles and [[Ajax the great]] and no signs of victory for the Greeks, the Greeks desperately 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 (mythology)|Palladium]] (which led to the building of the famous wooden horse of Troy); and persuade Achilles' son to join the war. The Greeks made haste to fetch Neoptolemus at Scyros, and brought him to Troy.
-In contrast to Achilles, a noble warrior who had shown mercy to [[Priam]], Neoptolemus was savage and cruel.  He killed Priam, [[Eurypylus]], [[Polyxena]], [[Polites]] and [[Astyanax]], among others, and enslaved [[Helenus]] and [[Andromache]] after the war.  With Andromache, Helenus and [[Phoenix]], Neoptolemus sailed to the [[Epirot Islands]] and then became the king of [[Epirus]].
+Odysseus and Neoptolemus then went to [[Lemnos]] to retrieve Philoctetes.  On the way to Troy, ten years earlier, [[Philoctetes]] was bitten by a snake on [[Chryse]].  Odysseus advised that he be left behind because the wound was festering and smelled bad. This retrieval is the plot of [[Philoctetes (Sophocles)|Philoctetes]], a play by [[Sophocles]].
-On the way to Troy, [[Philoctetes]] was bitten by a snake on [[Chryse]].  Odysseus advised that he be left behind because the wound was festering and smelled bad.  Ten years later, [[Helenus]], under torture, revealed that Philoctetes' arrows (which he received from [[Heracles]]) would be necessary to win the war.  Odysseus and Neoptolemus went to [[Lemnos]] to retrieve Philoctetes.  This retrieval is the plot of [[Philoctetes (Sophocles)|Philoctetes]], a play by [[Sophocles]].
+In contrast to Achilles, a noble warrior who had shown mercy to [[Priam]], Neoptolemus was savage and cruel.  He killed Priam, [[Eurypylus]], [[Polites]] and [[Astyanax]], among others, and enslaved [[Helenus]] and [[Andromache]] after the war. 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.
-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.  Neoptolemus also sacrificed her father, Priam, to [[Zeus]].
+With Andromache, Helenus and [[Phoenix]], Neoptolemus sailed to the [[Epirot Islands]] and then became the king of [[Epirus]]. With Andromache, Neoptolemus fathered [[Molossus]], the ancestor of [[Olympias]], mother of [[Alexander the Great]].
-With Andromache, who had been enslaved, Neoptolemus was the father of [[Molossus]] and ancestor of [[Olympias]], the mother of [[Alexander the Great]].
+Neoptolemus was killed after he attempted to take [[Hermione (mythology)|Hermione]] from [[Orestes]] as her father, [[Menelaus]], promised, or after he denounced [[Apollo]], the murderer of his father.  He was killed by Orestes or some [[Delphi|Delphian]] priests of Apollo.
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