Achilles

Achilles was a mythical Greek warrior who was most famous for participating in the Trojan War, a conflict traditionally dated around 1200 BCE. A central character of the Iliad, an epic poem by Homer, he is considered the greatest warrior in the story.
==Biography==
===Mythology===
According to legend, Achilles was invulnerable throughout his entire body except for one of his heels because when his mother, the Nereid Thetis, dipped him into the river Styx as an infant so that he may become invincible, she held him by one of his heels.Assassin's Creed: Origins In his childhood, his mother hid Achilles in the court of King Lykomedes of Skyros, disguised as one of his daughters, in an attempt to protect him from his foretold fate.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Historical Locations – Skyros: Temple of Achilles
At some point, the centaur Chiron tutored Achilles as a young man.Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Elis: The Erymanthian Boar
Achilles' lover and one of his closest friends was the Lokrian Patroklos, who was slain during the Trojan War and later appeared as a ghost to Achilles.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
As a consequence of his invulnerability covering everything but his heel, he was ultimately slain by Paris when the Trojan prince loosed an arrow into his vulnerable heel.
===Simulation===
In a simulation of the Underworld created by the Isu Aletheia, Achilles was one of the four champions Hades tasked the misthios Kassandra with enlisting Achilles to help fill in the late Cerberos' position as a guardian of the Underworld. Tracking him to the Hall of Maniai, Kassandra engaged him in combat and bested him. Achilles then agreed to go and protect the Gate of the Glorious.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Fate of Atlantis: Torment of Hades – The Underworld's Fallen Guardians
==Legacy==
===Classic antiquity===
By the time of the Peloponnesian War, the northern region of the island of Skyros had been named after Achilles and the city hosted a temple dedicated to him on its fortified acropolis. It was also the base of the bandit group known as the Dagger which worshipped him.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Kingfisher and the Robin
According to Barnabas, the captain of Adrestia, Achilles' tomb was located on the island of Andros.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Memories Awoken
In 48 BCE, a hunter bow named the Achilles Heel Seeker found in Egypt was marketed as based on the design of Paris' bow.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Achilles Heel Seeker The Medjay Bayek of Siwa also found a shield which was claimed to have ultimately belonged to Achilles.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Alexander's Shield
===Renaissance===
Around 1695, the Genoan painter made The Quarrel Between Agamemnon and Achilles, based on a scene in the Iliad wherein Agamemnon stole Achilles' war prize, a concubine by the name of .Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Mycenae: "King Agamemnon"
===Modern times===
In 1757, the Venetian painter made the fresco , inspired by the aftermath of Patrokles' death. In 1778, the French painter made which depicted the s held in Patroklos' honor; 10 years after its making, the French Templars' Grand Master François de la Serre had purchased multiple copies of reproductions that he displayed throughout the family's estate in Versailles.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Memories of Versailles
In 2012, Achilles was one of many historical people included in the Glyph puzzles the late Assassin Clay Kaczmarek had left behind in the Animus as messages for his successor Desmond Miles to decipher. Desmond later did in September of that year.Assassin's Creed: Initiates – The Desmond Files Desmond solved this puzzle, which was part of a set titled "Instruments of Power" where Achilles was excluded from the list of historical individuals revealed by Clay to have wielded a Staff of Eden.Assassin's Creed II – Glyph #5: "Instruments of Power"
==Behind the scenes==
"Achilles", also spelt "Achilleus" (Ἀχιλλεύς), is an Ancient Greek name derived from ἄχος (áchos) "distress, pain, sorrow, grief" and λαός (laós) "people, soldiers, nation", resulting in a proto-form *Akhí-lāu̯os meaning "he who has the people distressed" or "he whose people have distress".
When playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey as Alexios, the armor set gained by completing The Heroes of the Cult-memory is called the Achilles Set. The belt of that set mentions how it was given to Achilles by his mother, the Nereid Thetis.
The mural featuring Achilles in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is based on the of Polygnotos' .
==Gallery==
ACOD FoA ToH Achilles.png|Achilles in the Hall of Maniai
ACOD FoA ToH Gate of the Glorious Achilles.jpg|Achilles at the Gate of the Glorious
ACOd-mural-Achilles.jpg|A 5th century BCE mural featuring Achilles
DTAG Duel between Agamemnon and Achilles - Giovanni Battista Gaulli.jpg|Battista's The Quarrel Between Agamemnon and Achilles
RageofAchilles.jpeg|Tiepolo's The Rage of Achilles
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Unity 
*Assassin's Creed: Origins 
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey 
**The Fate of Atlantis: Torment of Hades 
*Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece
==References==
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