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Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles ( ə-KIL-eez; Latin: [äˈkʰɪlːʲeːs̠]) or Achilleus (Ancient Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς, romanized: Akhilleús, [a.kʰil.lěu̯s]) was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and is the central character of Homer's Iliad. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia. Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan prince 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 with an arrow. Later legends (beginning with Statius' unfinished epic Achilleid, written in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body e… more »