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  • / I know she's supposed to marry somebody/ else Neoptolemos, I think/ but I'll see to it he dies.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • / I know she's supposed to marry somebody/ else Neoptolemos, I think/ but I'll see to it he dies.

    Anne Carson - or another Sudan seminar 2009

  • Neoptolemos, son of Achilles, seems born to plunder and conquer.

    BLACK SHIPS - Midway Point Tia Nevitt 2008

  • Neoptolemos, son of Achilles, seems born to plunder and conquer.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Tia Nevitt 2008

  • There is a bad guy--a blood enemy--named Neoptolemos who, like the best of villains, keeps turning up, even halfway around the world.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Tia Nevitt 2008

  • There is a bad guy--a blood enemy--named Neoptolemos who, like the best of villains, keeps turning up, even halfway around the world.

    BLACK SHIPS - Midway Point Tia Nevitt 2008

  • OLYMPIASDaughter of King Neoptolemos of Molossia; widow of Philip II; mother of Alexander.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • His favorite poet, he said, was Sophokles, who wrote about responsibility and moral choice — Antigone and Neoptolemos weighing their own decency and honor, which they knew first-hand, against causes they were asked to take on trust.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • Polygnotos had brought together many incidents described in the Cyclic epics: Menelaos Agamemnon, Ulysses, Nestor, Neoptolemos, Antenor, Helen,

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various

  • Nought worse than this could I endure, not though I should hear of my father's death, who now I ween in Phthia is shedding big tears for lack of a son so dear, even me that in an alien land for sake of baleful Helen do battle with the men of Troy; nor though it were my beloved son who is reared for me in Skyros (if still at least is godlike Neoptolemos alive).

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

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