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   Achilles
   son of Peleus and Thetis, a goddess; bathed in the river Styx as a baby by his mother, Achilles' heel did not enter the water that makes whomever bathes in it invulnerable; one myth says that an arrow shot by Paris hit Achilles in his vulnerable heel and caused his death; his parents put him in the care of the Centaur Chiron as a young boy; originally known as Ligyron, Chiron named him Achilles and fed him nothing but the entrails of wild boars and lions to give him strength, bear's marrow, and honey to make him gentle and persuasive; Achilles is the hero of the Iliad; he was the best friend of Patroclus who was killed by Hektor with the aid of Apollo during the Trojan War; Achilles killed Hektor and held funeral games in honor of Patroclus;
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   Achilles
   In Greek mythology, Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Thessaly, and of the sea nymph Thetis, who rendered him invulnerable, except for the heel by which she held him, by dipping him in the river Styx. Achilles killed Hector at the climax of the Iliad, and according to subsequent Greek legends was himself killed by Paris, who shot a poisoned arrow into Achilles' heel.
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   Achilles
   The name Achilles has been used for British war ships since 1744 and is associated with the capture of the St Florentine in 1759 and the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. In 1863 a first-class cruiser was launched and named Achilles. That Achilles was decommissioned in 1901.
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   Achilles
   Achilles is a township in Rawlins County Kansas, USA.
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   Achilles
   Achilles is a Grecian commander in Troilus and Cressida.
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   Achilles
   [n] - a mythical Greek hero of Homer's Iliad
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   Achilles
   Greek hero of Homer's Iliad. He was the son of Peleus, King of the Myrmidons in Thessaly, and of the sea nymph Thetis who, by dipping him in the River Styx, rendered him invulnerable, except for the...
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   Achilles: In Greek mythology, the hero who was thought to have some special medical knowledge. Achilles studied medicine with Chiron, the centaur, who invented it. '...But save me. Take me to the ship, cut this arrow out of my leg, wash the blood from it with warm water and put the right things on it - the plants they say you have learned about fro ...
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   Achilles
   Mythical Greek warrior, vulnerable only in the heel. ... See: Achilles bursa, Achilles reflex, Achilles tendon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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    Achilles
    noun a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles` heel`
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    Achilles
    In Greek mythology, `Achilles` (also `Akhilleus` or `Achilleus`; Ancient Greek: ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's `Iliad`, which takes for its theme the Wrath of Achilles. He embodies the archetype of the flawed hero, his defect being his pride, symbolized by his vulnerable heel. Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy, as well as t...
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    Achilles
    (from the article `Troilus and Cressida`) ...of Sparta but now the mistress of the Trojan prince Paris. Their one scene together presents Helen and Paris as vapid and self-centred. Other ...
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    Achilles
    (from the article `Wolf, Max`) ...to use the stereocomparator (a type of stereoscopic viewer), which greatly helps in the discovery and identification of variable or moving objects ... In 1906 the first of the predicted objects, (588) Achilles, was discovered near the Lagrangian point preceding Jupiter in its orbit. Within a year ... ...
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    (from the article `Graf Spee`) ...ships in the Atlantic, the Graf Spee was sighted on Dec. 13, 1939, off the Río de la Plata estuary by a British search group consisting of the ...
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    Achilles
    in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. He was the bravest, handsomest, and ... [12 related articles]
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    Achilles
    Achilles is a Greek boy name. The meaning of the name is `without lips, brown, dark ` Where is it used? The name Achilles is mainly used In Greek Mythology (Latinized) .How do they say it elsewhere? Achille ( In French and In Italian) The name Achilles doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Ach
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    Achilles
    Achilles The Trojan hero and son of Thetis and Peleus from a Greek myth.
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    Achilles
    Mythical Greek warrior, vulnerable only in the heel. See: Achilles bursa, Achilles reflex, Achilles tendon
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    (minor planet 588) The first of the Trojan asteroids to be found, in 1906 by Max Wolf. Its discovery, at Jupiter's fourth Lagrangian point (L4), preceding the planet in its orbit, confirmed Joseph-Louis Lagrange’s theory that two-body systems have points where a third object of ...
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    Achilles (ukil'ēz) , in Greek mythology, foremost Greek hero of the Trojan War, son of Peleus and Thetis. He was a formidable warrior, possessing fierce and uncontrollable anger. Thetis, knowing that Achilles was fated to die at Troy, disguised him as a girl and hid him among the women at ...
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