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With Lycomedes' daughter Deidamia, whom in the account of Statius he raped, Achilles there fathered two sons, Neoptolemus (also called Pyrrhus, after his father's possible alias) and Oneiros.
To keep him out of the Trojan War, she hid Achilles, dressed as a woman, in the court of King Lycomedes on the island of Skyros. The king's daughter Deidamia discovered his true gender and had an affair with him. A boy was born from that affair called Neoptolemus.
Years have passed, the war has ended, Achilles is dead, and Briseis is pregnant with his child. Before his last battle Achilles gave Briseis to Alcimus, a trusted general, to prevent her being auctioned off with his other possessions.
Subdued, she then consented to marry him. Thetis is the mother of Achilles by Peleus, who became king of the Myrmidons.
When Odysseus, Ajax, and Phoenix visit Achilles to negotiate her return in book 9, Achilles refers to Briseis as his wife or his bride. He professes to have loved her as much as any man loves his wife, at one point using Menelaus and Helen to complain about the injustice of his "wife" being taken from him.
He married Helen's daughter Hermione, but he carried off as a concubine Hector's widow, Andromache, by whom he was the father of Molossus, ancestor of the Molossian kings.
While she is his war prize, Achilles loves Briseis, and is very angry when she is taken away.
She eventually becomes Patroclus's closest friend and falls in love with him, offering to have his children even as he remains with Achilles. Though Patroclus refuses, he wonders if he could have loved her if he'd never met Achilles. Briseis is extremely beautiful, deeply intelligent, and funny.
It was said that Briseus, when he learned that his daughter had been taken by the Achaean hero, committed suicide, hanging himself.
Shakespeare. William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida portrays Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in the eyes of the Greeks. Achilles' decision to spend his days in his tent with Patroclus is seen by Odysseus (called Ulysses in the play) and many other Greeks as the chief reason for anxiety about Troy.
We know Achilles wasn't much of a family man. He spent much of his life out in the battlefields, and he never married or settled in any one place. Some stories even suggest he might have been gay. However, we do know that Achilles had one son, a boy named Pyrrhus Neoptolemus.
When Briseis is taken from him in the Iliad, Achilles describes her in startlingly emotional language: in fact, he calls her the 'wife of his heart', declaring that 'any good and sensible man loves and cares for his own woman as I loved her from my heart, although she was acquired by my spear'.
Briseis was no bride to Achilles.
She is traded between Achilles and Agamemnon like any other war prize, and upon Achilles' death is rumored to have been given to one of his comrades, with no more say in her fate than his armor and other possessions.
Patroclus and Thetis' Son
Once Thetis gave into marrying Patroclus, she became determined to have a child with him.
When Achilles was brought to Scyros by his mother, Thetis, disguised as a girl, he grew fond of Deidamia and eventually fell in love with her. According to one legend, Achilles raped Deidamia which caused her to discover Achille's true identity.
Did Achilles have a male lover? As a boy, Achilles develops a close relationship with another boy named Patroclus, who joins Achilles' household as an exile, having accidentally killed another child. They become friends and possibly lovers.
It is clear that Achilles and Patroclus had an incredibly deep, intimate bond. But nothing between them in the Iliad is explicitly romantic or sexual.
Centuries later, various Greek texts presented Achilles and Patroclus as pederastic lovers (a common practice in Greek society where an older male and younger male form a sexual relationship).
Achilles seems to be almost jealous of Briseis, accusing Patroclus of choosing her over him—this suggests that, at least subconsciously, Achilles also didn't mind that his plan involved hurting Briseis because she was an obstacle between him and Patroclus.
Even though she was a war prize, Achilles and Briseis fell in love with each other, and Achilles may have gone to Troy intending to spend much time in his tent with her, as was portrayed in the movie.
Neoptolemus comes to take Achilles' place and has Briseis killed when she refuses his advances and reveals Achilles and Patroclus' relationship. The Achaeans erect a tomb for Achilles and Patroclus, but do not inscribe Patroclus' name at the behest of Neoptolemus.
Achilles lends Patroclus his armor to lead an assault against the Trojans, who are attacking the Greek ships. In the reading, Patroclus' assault saves the ships but results in his death at the hands of Hector, a prince of Troy and their mightiest warrior.
Achilles and Patroclus grew up together after Menoitios gave Patroclus to Achilles' father, Peleus. During this time, Peleus made Patroclus one of Achilles' "henchmen". While Homer's Iliad never explicitly stated that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers, this concept was propounded by some later authors.
Andromache, in Greek legend, the daughter of Eëtion (prince of Thebe in Mysia) and wife of Hector (son of King Priam of Troy).