* Neoptolemus, following the advice of Helenus, who accompanied him when he traveled over land, was always accompanied by Andromache.

They then conquered the land of the Molossians ( Epirus ) and Neoptolemus had a child by Andromache, Molossus, to whom he later gave the throne.

According to Euripides ' play Andromache, Orestes slew Neoptolemus just outside a temple and took off with his cousin, Hermione.

Neoptolemus had taken Helenus's sister-in-law, Andromache, as a slave and concubine after Hector's death, and fathered Molossus, Pielus and Pergamus with her.

He traveled with Neoptolemus, Andromache and their children to Epirus, where Neoptolemus permitted him to found the city of Buthrotum.

After Neoptolemus left Epirus, he left Andromache and their sons in Helenus's care.

Some mythographers alleged that Helenus married Neoptolemus's mother, Deidamia, as well as Andromache, in order to consolidate his claims on part of Neoptolemus ' kingdom.

With Andromache, Helenus and Phoenix, Neoptolemus sailed to the Epirot Islands and then became the King of Epirus.

With the enslaved Andromache, Neoptolemus was the father of Molossus and through him, according to the myth, an ancestor of Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great.

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and Deidamia, begat Amphialus by captive Andromache, daughter of Ēëtion.

* Molossus ( Μολοσσός ), in Greek mythology, the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache and ancestor of the Molossians

Neoptolemus took Andromache as a concubine and Hector's brother, Helenus, as a slave.

When Neoptolemus died, Andromache married Helenus and became Queen of Epirus.

In Euripides ' The Trojan Women, Andromache despairs at the murder of her son Astyanax and is then given to Neoptolemus as a concubine.

In his Andromache, Euripides dramatizes when she and her child were nearly assassinated by Hermione, the wife of Neoptolemus and daughter of Helen and Menelaus.

Andromache has been taken prisoner in Epirus by Neoptolemus ( Pyrrhus ) who is due to be married to Hermione, the only daughter of the Spartan king Menelaus and Helen of Troy.

Shortly after settling into the domestic life, however, conflict arose between Hermione and Andromache ( widow of Hector, prince of Troy and elder brother of Paris ), the concubine Neoptolemus had obtained as a prize after the sack of Troy.

She asked her father to kill Andromache while Neoptolemus was away at war, but when he chose not to go through with the murder, Hermione fled from Epirus with her cousin Orestes.

Molossus, their eponymous ancestor, was said to have been born of a union between Neoptolemus ( son of Achilles ) and Andromache ( the wife of Hector of Troy ).

Nonetheless, a substantial fragment which is securely attributed to the Little Iliad describes how Neoptolemus takes Hector's wife Andromache captive and kills Hector's baby son, Astyanax, by throwing him from the walls of the city.

Odysseus kills Hector's baby son Astyanax and Neoptolemus takes Hector's wife Andromache captive.

Molossus inherited the kingdom of Epirus after the death of Helenus, son of Priam and Hecuba of Troy, who had married his erstwhile sister-in-law Andromache after Neoptolemus ' death.

* Molossus son of Neoptolemus and Andromache.

Helenus founded a city in Molossia and inhabited it, and Neoptolemus gave him his mother Deidamia as wife.

Neoptolemus was killed by Orestes, Agamemmon's son, in dispute over Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen, whom Orestes had been promised as wife, but whom Neoptolemus had taken.

375 – 316 BC ) was a Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great.

There, he married Ptolemy I's stepdaughter Antigone ( a daughter of Berenice I of Egypt from her first husband Philip, Ptolemy I's wife and a Macedonian noble ) and restored his kingdom in Epirus in 297 BC with financial and military aid from Ptolemy I. Pyrrhus had his co-ruler Neoptolemus II of Epirus, puppet of the now-deceased Seleucus, murdered.

Regardless, ten years after the end of the Trojan War, Neoptolemus claimed Hermione as his wife.

Neoptolemus kills king Priam, even though he has taken refuge at the altar of Zeus ; Menelaus kills Deiphobus and takes back his wife Helen ; Ajax the Lesser rapes Cassandra and drags her from the altar of Athena.

The Greeks retrieved Pelop's bones, and sent Odysseus to retrieve Neoptolemus, who was hiding from the war in King Lycomedes's court in Scyros.

Odysseus was sent to retrieve Neoptolemus, then a mere teenager, from Scyros.

( As Sophocles writes it in his play named Philoctetes, Odysseus is accompanied by Neoptolemus, Achilles ' son, also known as Pyrrhus.

In another legend, Philoctetes was left on Lemnos by the Greeks on their way to Troy ; and there he suffered ten years ' agony from his wounded foot, until Odysseus and Neoptolemus induced him to accompany them to Troy.

The island of Ithaki was also the legendary home of Odysseus, though he was exiled by Neoptolemus after the slaughter of Penelope's suitors in the Odyssey.

The novel is inspired by Sophocles ' play Philoctetes, with the roles of Odysseus, Neoptolemus and Philoctetes played by Boardman, Rawlins, and Muller, respectively.

While a ship of Mycenaeans sail to Pisa to bring back the bones of Pelops, Odysseus brings Achilles ' son Neoptolemus to Troy, gives him Achilles ' armor, and Achilles ' ghost appears to him.

Neoptolemus follows Thetis ' advice and goes home by land ; in Thrace he meets Odysseus at Maroneia, who has come there by sea.

It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes with them to Troy.

Odysseus sails back to Lemnos with Neoptolemus ( son of Achilles ) in order to get Philoctetes.

Odysseus explains to Neoptolemus that he must perform a shameful action in order to garner future glory-to take Philoctetes by tricking him with a false story while Odysseus hides.

In order to gain Philoctetes's trust, Neoptolemus tricks Philoctetes into thinking he hates Odysseus as well.

Neoptolemus does this by telling Philoctetes that Odysseus has his father's ( Achilles ) armor.