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NEOPTOLEMUS (also called PYRRxus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NEOPTOLEMUS (also called PYRRxus)

NEOPTOLEMUS (also called PYRRxus) , in See also:

Greek See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, the son of See also:

Achilles and Deidameia. He was brought up by his grandfather Lycomedes in the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

SCYROS

Scyros, and taken to See also:

Troy in the last See also:

YEAR

year of the See also:

war by See also:

ODYSSEUS (in Latin Ulixes, incorrectly written Ulysses)

Odysseus, since See also:

HELENUS

Helenus had declared that the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city could not be captured without the aid of a descendant of See also:

AEACUS

Aeacus. Neoptolemus was famed for his beauty, eloquence and bravery. He was one of the warriors in the wooden See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse and slew See also:

PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos)

Priam at the See also:

SACK

sack of Troy (Odyssey, xi. 508-526; Aeneid, ii. 527). Apart from these Trojan tales, Neoptolemus is a prominent figure in the legends of See also:

EPIRUS, or EPEIRUS

Epirus and of See also:

DELPHI (the Pytho of Homer and Herodotus; in Boeotian inscriptions BeA4oi, on coins Aa)tg5oi)

Delphi. He was the ancestor of the Molossian See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings, who therefore claimed to be of pure Hellenic stock. He was murdered at Delphi, where he was buried, and a festival was held in his See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour every eighth year.

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