Facts about Achilles
Agamemnon consented, but then commanded that Achilles' slave Briseis be brought to replace Chryseis.
Achilles' role as the hero of grief forms an ironic juxtaposition with the conventional view of Achilles as the hero of kleos (glory, usually glory in war).
According to the Infancy Gospel of Thomas these childhood miracles caused great friction between Jesus' family and the other villagers.
Achilles, after his temporary truce with Priam, fought and killed the Amazonian warrior queen Penthesilea.
Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Troy (southeast Thessaly), and the immortal sea nymph Thetis.
Another lost play by Aeschylus, The Myrmidons, focused on the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus; only a few lines survive today.
Achilles consented to Patroclus leading the Myrmidons into battle, though Achilles would remain at his camp.
According to this story, Odysseus learns from the prophet Calchas that the Achaeans would be unable to capture Troy without Achilles' aid.
Peleus entrusted Achilles to Chiron the Centaur, on Mount Pelion, to be raised and educated.
To the contrary, in the Iliad Homer mentions Achilles being wounded: in Book 21 the Paeonian hero Asteropaeus, son of Pelegon, challenged Achilles by the river Scamander.
Many Homeric scholars argued that episode inspired many details in the Iliad's description of the death of Patroclus and Achilles' reaction to it.
The prophet Jeremiah likened fire to God's word (Jeremiah 23:29), hence "judgment by fire" can be a metaphor for judgment by God's truth.
wrote a trilogy of plays about Achilles, given the title Achilleis by modern scholars.
Some post-Homeric sources claim that in order to keep Achilles safe from the war, Thetis (or, in some versions, Peleus) hides the young man at the court of Lycomedes, king of Skyros.
Post-Homeric literature explores a pederastic interpretation of the love between Achilles and Patroclus.
Achilles from Leuce island was venerated as Pontarches the lord and master of the Pontic (Black) Sea, the protector of sailors and navigation.
Some of these animals they slaughter, others they set free on the island, in Achilles’ honor.
Both versions conspicuously deny the killer any sort of valor owing to the common conception that Paris was a coward and not the man his brother Hector was, and Achilles remains undefeated on the battlefield.
state that Achilles was invulnerable on all of his body except for his heel.
One can still read inscriptions in Greek and Latin, in which Achilles is praised and celebrated.
Achilles is also famous for being the most 'handsome' of the heroes assembled at Troy, as well as the fleetest.
Zeus himself took note of Achilles' rage and sent the gods to restrain him.
The fight between Achilles and Memnon over Antilochus echoes that of Achilles and Hector over Patroclus, except that Memnon (unlike Hector) is also the son of a goddess (like Achilles).
Following the death of Patroclus, Achilles's closest companion was Nestor's son Antilochus.
Achilles' armor was the object of a feud between Odysseus and Telamonian Ajax (Achilles' older cousin).
The tragedies relate the deeds of Achilles during the Trojan War, including his defeat of Hector and eventual death when an arrow shot by Paris punctures his heel.
Achilles got his vengeance, killing Hector with a blow to the neck.
Achilles pursued him into the sanctuary and decapitated him on the god's own altar.
According to traditions related by Plutarch and the Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes, once the Greek ships arrived in Troy, Achilles fought and killed Cycnus of Colonae, a son of the sea god Poseidon.
Angry at the dishonor (and as he says later, because he loved Briseis) and at the urging of Thetis, Achilles refused to fight or lead his Myrmidons alongside the other Greek forces.
Some of these are worded in Patroclus’ honor, because those who wish to be favored by Achilles, honor Patroclus at the same time.
Achilles did so and Calchas declared Chryses must be returned to her father.
Achilles' name can be analyzed as a combination of ???? (akhos) "grief" and ???? (Laos) "a people, tribe, nation, etc."
Enraged over the death of Patroclus, Achilles ended his refusal to fight and took the field killing many men in his rage but always seeking out Hector.
When Memnon of Ethiopia killed Antilochus, Achilles was once again drawn onto the battlefield to seek revenge.
The palace, naturally, was named after Achilles: Achilleion (?????????).
The Periplus of the Euxine Sea gives the following details: "It is said that the goddess Thetis raised this island from the sea, for her son Achilles, who dwells there.
Roman gladiatorial games often referenced classical mythology and this seems to reference Achilles' fight with Penthesilea, but give it an extra twist of Achilles being 'played' by a man.
Finally in 1947, Major League Baseball's color barrier was broken when Jackie Robinson was signed by the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers.
Achilles even engaged in battle with the river god Scamander who became angry that Achilles was choking his waters with all the men he killed.
According to Paparrigopoulos, history vindicated Cimon, because Athens, after Pericles' death, sank into the abyss of political turmoil and demagogy.
The new armor included the Shield of Achilles, described in great detail by the poet.
When Achilles instantly takes up the spear, Odysseus sees through his disguise and convinces him to join the Greek campaign.
The tragedian Sophocles also wrote a play with Achilles as the main character, The Lovers of Achilles.
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Ruins of a square temple 98 feet to a side, possibly that dedicated to Achilles, were discovered by Captain Kritzikly in 1823, but there has been no modern archeology done on the island.
The kings of the Epirus claimed to be descended from Achilles through his son.
Some of these animals they slaughter, others they set free on the island, in Achilles’ honor.
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.