9 In order to obtain those arrows Neoptolemus and Odysseus were sent from Troy to the island of Lemnos, … Neoptolemus, the New Warrior, also called Pyrrhus (red-haired), was the son of Achilles by Deidamia.

He came to the war after his father’s death, leading the men of Epirus and his father’s Myrmidons. Neoptolemus, in Greek legend, the son of Achilles, the hero of the Greek army at Troy, and of Deïdamia, daughter of King Lycomedes of Scyros; he was sometimes called Pyrrhus, meaning “Red-haired.” In the last year of the Trojan War the Greek hero Odysseus brought him to Troy after the Trojan seer The following summary of the Trojan War follows the order of events as given in Proclus' summary, along with the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, supplemented with details drawn from other authors. After the war, when Neoptolemus was reigning over the Molossians in Epirus, he gave Deidamia 1as wife to Helenus 1, the Trojan seer, son of King Priam 1, whom he had brought as a prisoner. Neoptolemus was brought up in Scyros in the house of Lycomedes, 7 whence he was fetched by Odysseus to join the Greeks in the war against Troy, 8 because it had been prophesied by Helenus that Neoptolemus and Philoctetes, with the arrows of Heracles, were necessary for the taking of Troy.