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Deidamia

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Greek The wife of the Greek hero Achilles, though some experts suggest the two were never married. Deidamia was the daughter of King Lycomedes, of the island of Skyros. When Achilles' mother, Thetis, a sea nymph, asked Lycomedes to hide her son to protect him from having to fight in the Trojan War, the king dressed Achilles as a girl and hid him among his daughters. Deidamia and Achilles fell in love, and while he was still in hiding, she bore him a son, Pyrrhus, who came to be known as Neoptolemus. The couple sailed away together but were blown back to the island kingdom.

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