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noun - a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad
ACHILLES - In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus ( -KIL-eez; Greek: , Achilleus [a.kil.leús]) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character ...
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| Brad played this Greek hero in the epic "Troy" |
| He killed Hector, then Paris killed him |
| Hector kills Patroclus, this hero's best buddy; mistake |
| Christopher Walken played this famous "heel" in "Troilus and Cressida" in 1973 |
| In the Trojan War Ajax grew frenzied & killed himself when this man's armor was given to Ulysses |
| He loved Polyxena but demanded that she be slain at his tomb--what a "heel"! |
| The son of Peleus who was the leading warrior for the Greeks |
| His mother Thetis made the mistake of bathing him in the River Styx by holding him by the heel, thus making his heel vulnerable |
| In the "Iliad", Patroclus is the bosom companion of this fierce Greek warrior |
| In Greek myth, Paris killed this hero by shooting him with an arrow; what a heel! |
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| a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his Achilles' heel' |
| A hero of the Trojan War, son of Peleus and Thetis. During his infancy his mother plunged him in the Styx, thus making his body invulnerable except for the heel by which she held him. During the Trojan War Achilles killed Hector but was later wounded in the heel by an arrow shot by Paris and died. |
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In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus ( -KIL-eez; Greek: , Achilleus [a.kil.leús]) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. His mother was the immortal Nereid Thetis, and his father, the mortal Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons. * Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan hero Hector outside the gates of Troy. Although the death of Achilles is not presented in the Iliad, other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him in the heel with an arrow. 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 because, when his mother Thetis dipped him in the river Styx as an infant, she held him by one of his heels. Alluding to these legends, the term "Achilles heel" has come to mean a point of weakness, especially in someone or something with an otherwise st |