In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς, Akhilleus, pronounced [akʰillěu̯s]) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.
Plato named Achilles the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy.
Later legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel. As he died because of a small wou...
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Representations In Fiction:
Artwork on the Subject:
- The Education of Achilles ,
- The Anger of Achilles ,
- The Wrath of Achilles ,
- Thetis Takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron ,
- Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes ,
- Chiron and Achilles
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Also known as:
- Ulisse
