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Neoptolemus

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Neoptolemus
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Scyros1 observation
·Uncertain

Achilles says that Neoptolemus is being brought up in Scyros, while questioning whether he is still alive.

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“nor yet though I should hear that my son is no more—he who is being brought up in Scyros—if indeed Neoptolemus is still living.”

Claims

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·Uncertain

Achilles is uncertain whether Neoptolemus, his son being raised in Scyros, is still alive.

See evidence text
“nor yet though I should hear that my son is no more—he who is being brought up in Scyros—if indeed Neoptolemus is still living”

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·Uncertain
“my son is no more—he who is being brought up in Scyros—if indeed Neoptolemus is still living”

Passage preview

Book 19 · Passage 24

‘Hapless and dearest comrade, you it was who would get a good dinner ready for me at once and without delay when the Achaeans were hasting to fight the Trojans; now, therefore, though I have meat and drink in my tents, yet will I fast for sorrow. Grief greater than this I could not know, not even though I were to hear of the death of my father, who is now in Phthia weeping for the loss of me his son, who am here fighting the Trojans in a strange land for the accursed sake of Helen, nor yet though I should hear that my son is no more—he who is being brought up in Scyros—if indeed Neoptolemus is still living. Till now I made sure that I alone was to fall here at Troy away from Argos, while you were to return to Phthia, bring back my son with you in your own ship, and show him all my property, my bondsmen, and the greatness of my house—for Peleus must surely be either dead, or what little life remains to him is oppressed alike with the infirmities of age and ever present fear lest he should hear the sad tidings of my death.’