Deidamia (mythology)

Deidameia (Greek Δηιδάμεια ) is a figure from Greek mythology. With Achilles she is the mother of Neoptolemus.

She was the daughter of the king Lycomedes, king of Skyros, her son Achilles dressed as a girl at his daughters Thetis hid so he did not have to pull in the Trojan War.

Swell

  • Libraries of Apollodorus, 3, 13, 8
  • Hyginus Mythographus: Fables 97, 122
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