[ProtectOurFreedom]

Hmmm...

...his mother, Thetis, disguised him as a girl and sent him to the court of King Lycomedes on the island of Skyros. There, Achilles lived among the king’s daughters under the name Pyrrha and secretly fell in love with Deidamia, who bore him a son, Neoptolemus...

Sounds like a 21st century story of a boy cross-dressing and acting like a girl.

[Dr. Franklin]

Sounds like a 21st century story of a boy cross-dressing and acting like a girl.

Well something more happened after he fell in love with Deidamia quite obviously. Cross dressing as a girl certainly got him access to the forbidden fruit, but unless the king knew his secret weakness, what could he do to him?