In Greek mythology, greatest of the Greek warriors in the Trojan War. When the Fates prophesied that Achilles would die in the Trojan War, Thetis attempted to make her infant son immortal. According to a one legend, she bathed him in the River Styx. The waters made him invulnerable except for the heel by which his mother held him.
In Greek mythology, Achilles (also Akhilleus or Achilleus; Ancient Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of ...
Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid Thetis. He was the mightiest of the Greeks who fought in the Trojan War, and was the hero of Homer's Iliad. Thetis ...
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