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Achilles was a Greek hero in Homer's Iliad during the Trojan War. He was the son of the mortal king Peleus and the immortal sea nymph Thetis. According to Greek mythology, Achilles was invulnerable over his entire body except for his heel, where he was killed by an arrow in battle, giving rise to the term "Achilles' heel" to refer to one's weakness.
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- 2. About Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan war. The central character and greatest warrior of Homer's lliad . which takes for its theme the Wrath of Achilles .
- 3. Achilles’ Birth Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the immortal sea nymph Thetis in Farsala, Thessaly. Zeus and Poseidon had been rivals for the hand of Thetis until Prometheus, the fire-bringer, warned Zeus of a prophecy that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father. For this reason, the two gods withdrew their pursuit, and had her wed to Peleus.
- 4. Achilles’ Death Achilles' death came as divine retribution for his hubristic murder of Troilus. Later legends state that Achilles was invulnerable on all of his body except for his heel. These legends state that Achilles was killed in battle by an arrow to the heel, and so an “Achilles’ heel" or Achilles' tendon has come to mean a person's principal weakness.