Daughter of Lycomedes, king of Scyros, she bore Pyrrhus — afterwards called Neoptolemus — to Achilles while he lay hidden among her father's daughters in maiden's dress.1
Foreseeing that her son was fated to perish if he went to the war, Thetis disguised Achilles in female garb and entrusted him as a maiden to Lycomedes, king of Scyros, where he was reared among the king's daughters. Hyginus adds that the girls there called the hidden boy Pyrrha, since he had tawny hair, the Greeks naming a redhead pyrrhos.2
Bred at her father's court, Deidamia, daughter of Lycomedes, had an intrigue with the disguised Achilles and bore him a son named Pyrrhus, who was afterwards called Neoptolemus. The secret was betrayed, and when Odysseus sought Achilles at Scyros he uncovered him by the blast of a trumpet, and the hero was carried off to the war.3
After Troy fell, Deidamia's son Neoptolemus settled the fortunes of his house: when Helenus founded a city in Molossia, Neoptolemus gave his mother Deidamia to him in marriage.4
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