Achilles

Achilles in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Ἀχιλλεύς). In the legends about Achilles, as about all the heroes of the Trojan war, the Homeric traditions should be carefully kept apart from the various additions and embellishments with which the gaps of the ancient story have been filled up by later poets and mythographers, not indeed by fabrications of their own, but by adopting those supple...

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Achilles in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: Ἀ÷éeeåýò, Achilleus) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy. Later legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the first century AD) state that...

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