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Neoptolemos
or Pyrrhos. Son of Achilles; called Pyrrhos from
his yellow hair, and Neoptolemos because he was a new soldier,
or one that came late to the siege of Troy. According to Virgil, it was
this young man that slew the aged Priam. On his return home he was
murdered by Orestes, at Delphi.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Neoptolemos from Infoplease:
- Neoptolemos - Neoptolemos or Pyrrhos. Son of Achilles; called Pyrrhos from his yellow hair, and Neoptolemos ...
- Achilles - Achilles A-kil-leez (3 syl.). King of the Myrmidons (in Thessaly), the hero of Homer's epic ...
- Homer, Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., Ernest Myers, M.A.: How Achilles and Agamemnon were reconciled before the assembly of the Achaians, and Achilles went forth with them to battle. - Now Morning saffron-robed arose from the streams of Ocean to bring light to gods and men, and Thetis came to the ships, bearing his gift from the god.
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: N - Definitions, origins, and illustrative excerpts for words, phases, and literary allusions starting with "N"
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