Lycomedes

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Lycomedes (also known as Lycurgus), in Greek mythology, was the King of Scyros during the Trojan War. Before the war, Thetis sent her son Achilles to Lycomedes's court, as a prophecy had decreed that he would die at Troy. It was there that Achilles married Lycomedes' daughter Deidamia, who bore a son, Neoptolemus. Odysseus and Diomedes came to Scyros seeking Achilles, and succeeded in identifying him and bringing him to Troy. Neoptolemus stayed with his grandfather until he too was summoned during the later stages of the war. Plutarch says that Lycomedes also killed Theseus who had fled to his island in exile by pushing him off a cliff for he feared that Theseus would dethrone him.

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