Achilles
Achilles
Achilles is a hero of Greek mythology and the central figure of Homer's Iliad, the epic poem of the Trojan War, composed around the 8th century BC. In myth he is the son of the mortal king Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis, who, in a later tradition, dipped him in the river Styx to make him invulnerable, except for the heel by which she held him. Taught by the wise centaur Chiron, he became the foremost champion of the Greeks at Troy. The Iliad tells of his wrath after a quarrel with King Agamemnon, his grief at the loss of his friend Patroclus, and, in its final book, his compassion when he returns Hector's body to the aged King Priam. Tradition holds that he fell at Troy, struck in the heel by an arrow. His name lives on in the phrase "Achilles' heel."
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Heroes of Greek Myth and Epic
In Greek mythology, Perseus overcame the Gorgon Medusa, and his descendant Hercules completed twelve legendary labors. Achilles, the foremost Greek warrior of the Trojan War, is the hero of Homer's Iliad, a founding work of Western literature. Centuries later, Alexander the Great, who traced his ancestry to both Hercules and Achilles, is said to have kept a copy of the Iliad with him on campaign.
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