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- The kingdom hosts many foster daughters, and unbeknownst to Lycomedes, Thetis sends Achilles to pose as one of those daughters. Thetis then convinces Deidameia, who knows Achilles’s true identity, to secretly marry and have sex with him, which leads to her pregnancy.
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Thetis then convinces Deidameia, who knows Achilles’s true identity, to secretly marry and have sex with him, which leads to her pregnancy.
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Thetis interrupts the scene; while it is true she has married Deidameia to Achilles, she considers Deidameia foolish and ordinary, merely a means to protect her son from going to war. Deidameia explains that she is pregnant, and Patroclus, feeling hollow, leaves.
Upon hearing that Deidameia and Achilles are technically married and that Deidameia is pregnant, Patroclus leaves the room. Achilles later tells Patroclus that it was not his intention to sleep with Deidameia, and that Thetis had set him up so she could hide him.
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With Achilles’s identity still unknown to most of the court, he andPatroclus find hidden places beyond the palace where Achilles can use hisstrength. The two dine with Lycomedes and Deidameia, but Achilles ignores hisofficial wife almost altogether. Patroclus sees that this hurts her and wantsto help, but says nothing. One morning, Deidameia sends ...
Deidameia is sent away to “visit her aunt” because her father does not wanther pregnancy to be visible before her marriage is revealed. Achilles andPatroclus while away the time before the birth, impatient to leave Scyros andalways aware of the war. A ship arrives at Scyros, its fancy sails showing it is no trader. Awakeningfrom a nap, Patroclus fi...
Odysseus and Diomedes ask Achilles to come to Troy and fight. Diomedesthreatens that if he does not, they will reveal that he has been living as awoman, which would be considered a great shame. Taking a different approach,Odysseus speaks of the fame Achilles will gain if he fights at Troy. He tellsAchilles that this will be the greatest war of thei...
She meets Achilles as a result of Thetis’ plan to hide him among King Lycomedes’ daughters as a dancer to prevent his death at Troy. There she is tricked by Thetis into believing she would be Achilles’ wife, and lies with him as an unsuspecting pawn of his mother's plot.
He offers to leave, but Deidameia tells her father that Thetis married Achilles to her and that they have slept together. This tie between the two obligates Lycomedes to shelter Achilles.
As a result, she constantly attempts to separate the two, eventually marrying Achilles off to the princess Deidameia and forcing him to have a son with her. Thetis is also protective of her son, as she tries to keep Achilles away from the Trojan War, since she knows he’s fated to die in Troy.
