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.