Deidameia (daughter of Lycomedes)

Joseph Pollet: Achilles and Deidameia (1854)

Deidameia ( ancient Greek Δῃιδάμεια ) is a figure in Greek mythology . With Achilles she is the mother of Neoptolemus .

She was the daughter of King Lykomedes , the king of Skyros , with whose daughters Thetis hid her son Achilles disguised as a girl so that he would not have to go to the Trojan War .

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 13, 8.
• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 97, 122.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Deidameia 3) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 978 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Deidamia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Deidameia in the Greek Myth Index (English)