Scyros : Island in Aegean ruled by Lycomedes. Thetis, knowing her son Achilles would die fighting in Troy, had got Lycomedes to marry his daughter to Achilles. After a son was born to him, Achilles was enlisted by the Greeks invading Troy.
... side like a pillar upreared of snow or of marble, Golden-haired, hard and white was the boy Neoptolemus, fire-eyed. Page 435 New were his feet to the Trojan sands from the ships and from Scyros: Led to this latest of all his father's fights in the Troad He for his earliest battle waited, the son of Achilles. So in her mood had Fate brought them together, the son and the father, Even as... sped to thy tents, their friendship or quarrel Urged not my feet; but Tiryns' chieftain strong Diomedes Sent me claiming a word long old that first by his war-car Young Neoptolemus come from island Scyros should enter Far-crashing into the fight that has lacked this shoot of Achilles, Pressing in front with his father's strength in the playground of Ares, Shouting his father's cry as he clashed to... Ancients, Weavers of doom who play with our hopes and smile at our passions Painting Time with the red of our hearts on the web they have woven, How on the Ocean's bosom she hid thee in vine-tangled Scyros Clothed like a girl among girls with the daughters of King Lycomedes,— Art thou not fairer than woman's beauty, yet great as Apollo?— Fearing Paris' shafts and the anger of Delian Phoebus. Now ...
... mother dipped him into the Styx and so made him invulnerable except in the heel by which she held him. She later tried to prevent him from participating in the war by disguising him as a girl on Scyros. Discovered there by Odysseus, he came to Troy of his own free will and not as a vassal of Agamemnon. With his army of Myrmidons he took many towns in the Troad, including Lyrnessus where he captured ...
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