Achilles | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Achilles


00:01:01 1 Etymology
00:04:33 2 Birth and early years
00:07:39 2.1 Hidden on Skyros
00:08:52 3 In the Trojan War
00:09:16 3.1 Telephus
00:10:13 3.2 Troilus
00:12:05 3.3 In the iIliad/i
00:16:36 3.4 Later epic accounts: fighting Penthesilea and Memnon
00:18:15 3.5 Achilles and Patroclus
00:19:26 3.6 Death
00:21:49 3.7 Fate of Achilles' armour
00:23:06 3.8 Achilles, Ajax and a game of ipetteia/i
00:23:37 4 Worship and heroic cult
00:33:22 5 Reception during antiquity
00:33:32 5.1 In Greek tragedy
00:34:53 5.2 In Greek philosophy
00:35:26 5.3 Achilles in Roman and medieval literature
00:36:30 6 In modern literature and arts
00:36:40 6.1 Literature
00:39:28 6.2 Visual arts
00:41:08 6.3 Music
00:43:40 6.4 Film and television
00:44:37 6.5 Architecture
00:45:01 7 Namesakes



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In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus ( ə-KIL-eez; Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς, Achilleus [a.kʰil.le͜ús]) 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 strong constitution.