1) Character in the Iliad 2) Commander of the Myrmidons 3) Friend of antilochus 4) Greek boy name 5) Greek demigod 6) Greek hero 7) Greek mythological hero 8) He had a foot problem 9) Hero of old 10) Hero of the greek army 11) Hero with a vulnerable heel 12) Iliad hero 13) Kind of heel 14) King in Greek mythology
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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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(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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(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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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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Trojan son of Peleus and Thetis, bathed in the Styx to make him invulnerable?except in the place from which he hung. After desecrating Hector?s body in revenge for the death of Patroclus, Achilles was shot in the heel by Paris and died. Note
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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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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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Mythical Greek warrior, vulnerable only in the heel. ... See: Achilles bursa, Achilles reflex, Achilles tendon. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Achilles was a Greek warrior who fought in the Trojan war. His mother was a nymph named Thetis. When Achilles was a child she dipped him into the River Styx in the underworld to make him immortal but she held him by his heel and that part of his body remained mortal. During the Trojan War the Trojan Paris fired an arrow at Achille's heel and killed...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-kil′ēz Definitions: 1. Mythic Greek warrior, vulnerable to wounding only in his heel. See: Achilles bursa, Achilles reflex, Achilles tendon
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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 is a Grecian commander in Troilus and Cressida.
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In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero. He is the chief character in Homer's Iliad. His father was Peleus, ruler of Phthia in Thessaly, his mother the sea-goddess Thetis. When only six years of age he was able to overcome lions and bears. His guardian, Cheiron the Centaur, having declared that Troy could not be taken without his aid, his mot...
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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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[
n] - a mythical Greek hero of Homer's Iliad
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Achilles The Trojan hero and son of Thetis and Peleus from a Greek myth.
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(Achilles heel) weakness - (a Greek word used in Latin - the metaphor refers to the legend of the hero Achilles, as a baby held by the heel and dipped into the river Styx by his mother Thetis to make him immortal, leaving his heel vulnerable, such that when shot there by an arrow he died, hence the 'Achilles heel' or simply 'Achilles' is a p...
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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; origina...
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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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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 heel by which she held him. Achilles killed Hector at the climax of the
Iliad, and according to subsequent Gr...
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Greek warrior; slew Hector at Troy; slain by Paris, who wounded him in his vulnerable heel.
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the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow.
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Achilles is a Greek name for boys. The meaning is `brave strong hero` The name Achilles is most commonly given to Flemish boys. (3 times more often than to American boys.)
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