<P> At Skyros, Achilles had an affair with the king's daughter Deidamia, resulting in a child, Neoptolemus . Odysseus, Telamonian Ajax, and Achilles' tutor Phoenix went to retrieve Achilles . Achilles' mother disguised him as a woman so that he would not have to go to war, but, according to one story, they blew a horn, and Achilles revealed himself by seizing a spear to fight intruders, rather than fleeing . According to another story, they disguised themselves as merchants bearing trinkets and weaponry, and Achilles was marked out from the other women for admiring weaponry instead of clothes and jewelry . </P> <P> Pausanias said that, according to Homer, Achilles did not hide in Skyros, but rather conquered the island, as part of the Trojan War . </P> <P> The Achaean forces first gathered at Aulis . All the suitors sent their forces except King Cinyras of Cyprus . Though he sent breastplates to Agamemnon and promised to send 50 ships, he sent only one real ship, led by the son of Mygdalion, and 49 ships made of clay . Idomeneus was willing to lead the Cretan contingent in Mycenae's war against Troy, but only as a co-commander, which he was granted . The last commander to arrive was Achilles, who was then 15 years old . </P> <P> Following a sacrifice to Apollo, a snake slithered from the altar to a sparrow's nest in a plane tree nearby . It ate the mother and her nine babies, then was turned to stone . Calchas interpreted this as a sign that Troy would fall in the tenth year of the war . </P>

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