Achilles Greek Hero Achilles

Short entry on Achilles. Includes small picture of Achilles.

A profile of Achilles, the greatest hero of the Greek forces led the Myrmidons in the Trojan War.

Achilles is considered a great Greek hero, but by our standards he might not be. What was different in the definition of a hero in ancient times?

Achilles is considered a great Greek hero, but by our standards he might not be. What was different in the definition of a hero in ancient times?

What is the meaning of the expression Achilles Heel?

Achilles was the quintessential Greek hero of the Trojan War. Here are photos of objects showing Achilles.

Achilles Heel refers to the part of the anatomy by which Achilles was fatally injured.

Peleus was the son of Aeacus, King of Aegina and the father of the great Greek hero Achilles.

Peleus was the son of Aeacus, King of Aegina and the father of the great Greek hero Achilles.

Thetis is a nymph in Greek mythology and the mother of the Greek hero Achilles.

Book review of Achilles. Elizabeth Cook's little story (barely over 100 pages for the story itself) gets to the heart of the participation of Achilles in the Trojan War.

Glossary entry on the brother of Hector who helped slay Achilles.

In honor of his friend Patroclus, Achilles held funeral games (as described in Iliad.23).

Did Achilles have a son?

In the Warner Bros. movie Troy Achilles lasts until the Trojan Horse. In the Iliad, he doesn't.

The page from Carlos Parada's site on the most important Greek hero of the Trojan War -- Achilles.

Pictures of Achilles on Greek vases.

Achilles dragging Hector around the walls of Troy. Picture of a Greek vase showing the corpse of Hector dragged behind the chariot of Achilles, with the goddess Iris in the foreground and the parents of Hector, Hecuba and Priam to the left, and the shade of Patroclus to the right. English labels superimposed, and Greek labels for Patroclus and Hector on the original.

Glossary entry on the Myrmidons.

The Iliad, traditionally ascribed to Homer, is conventionally divided into 24 books.

Stories from Aesop and elsewhere that are used proverbially, including the story about an Achilles' Heel.