Eurypylus of Mysia ever seen. By some accounts Priam obtained Eurypylus' aid in the war by giving his mother Astyoche a golden vine, or by promising Eurypylus one of his daughters as wife. According to Servius, Eurypylus had a son, Grynus, who became king in Mysia and was known as the eponym of Gryneion and the founder of Pergamon. The earliest mention of Eurypylus occurs in Homer's "Odyssey". In the underworld Odysseus meets Achilles' ghost who asks Odysseus to tell him about his son Neoptolemus. Odysseus tells how, during the fighting at Troy, Achilles' son killed a great warrior, the magnificent and beautiful
2260 Neoptolemus a non-family asteroid in the Jovian background population. This asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.0–5.4 AU once every 11 years and 10 months (4,326 days; semi-major axis of 5.2 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.04 and an inclination of 18° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first observation as "" at McDonald Observatory in December 1951, almost 24 years prior to its official discovery observation at Nanking. In the SDSS-based taxonomy, "Neoptolemus" is a dark D-type asteroid. It has also been characterized as a D-type by the survey conducted