Achillies

Hero of throjan war the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.

Etymology
name is combination of (akhos) "grief" and (Laos) "a people, tribe, nation, etc."

Birth
was the son of the nymph Thetis and Pele us, the king of the Myrmidons. Ligyron was the name given to Achilles at birth. Prometheus, the forethinker, warned Zeus that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father. Thetis tried to make him immortal, by dipping him in the river Styx. left vulnerable at the part of the body by which she held him, his heel[

Thetis and pelus

Dipping him in river styx

 She put him on top of a fire, to burn away the mortal parts of his body. the Paeonian hero Asteropa eus, son of Pelagon, challenged Achilles by the river Scamander. He cast two spears at once, one grazed Achilles' elbow, "drawing a spurt of blood". in Book 21 She put him on top of a fire, to burn away the mortal parts of his body.

At river scamander

 Peleus entrusted Achilles to Chiron the Centaur, on Mt. Pelion, to be reared He learned how to hunt and fight. He was so swift, that he could run down any wild animal.

Achillies handing over to Chiron

Prophecy for Achillies

Prometheus, the fore-thinker, warned Zeus of a prophecy that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father prophecy that her son has two possible destinies. a. One was a peaceful and long life, but without the fame and glory. b. he can become one of the greatest Greek heroes, but only to be fated to die young. Thetis tried to prevent her son from going to Troy, hiding him in the court of Lycomedes at the island of Scyrus.

Hiding him in maiden

Among the king daughter`s

In woman clothing

Achillies in torjan war

The Greeks having been told by the seer that Troy would not fall without the aid of Achilles. Achilles and Odysseus originally didn't want to go but both were eventually persuaded to going with the rest of the Greeks. In the Trojan War, Achilles was regarded as the handsomest, the swiftest, the strongest and the bravest of the Greeks who fought in the Trojan War. He led the Myrmidons with fifty ships from Phthia, Alus, Alope, and Trachis. He was armed with a spear made by Cheiron, from a tree in Mount Pelion..

Achillies army

Armour given by his father

 Peleus also gave his two immortal horses to his son (Xanthus and Batus

Achilles wore immortal armour belonging to his father, a wedding gift from the gods
Achillies` armour

Xanthus and batus

Achillies` shield Achillies` sword

 Before arriving in Troy, Achilles was warned by his mother, not to kill Tenes, son of Apollo and king of Tenedos. If he were to kill Tenes, the god would surely avenge his son's death. But landing on the island of Tenedos, Achilles had forgotten her warning that resulted in the king's death. Achilles killed many of Trojan leaders (Priam's sons) as well as their allies. The most notable were Cycnus, son of Poseidon in the earlier year of war. In the last year of the war, he killed Hector, the Amazon and the ethiopian prince son of Eos and Tithonus.

Fury of achillies

Rage of achillies

 Achilles became involved in a bitter quarrel with his commander-inchief, Agamemnon.

Battle in torjan

When the Agamemnon send Nestor, Odysseus and Ajax, to entreat him to return the fighting, his pride and bitterness made him to stubbornly refuse.
Paris,odysseus,nestor,achillies

Achillies and ajax

 His pride, however, caused him to lose his beloved companion (and lover), Patroclus.

Patroculus and achillies

Achilles was overwhelmed with grief for his friend and rage at Hector

Achillies hastening to avenge

Killing of patroclus

. When Priam, the king of Troy and Hector's father, came secretly into the Greek camp to plead for the body, Achilles finally relented; in one of the most moving scenes of the Iliad, he received Priam graciously and allowed him to take the body away.

 He killed Hector and desecrated the body, dragging it behind his chariot before the walls of Troy, and refused to allow it to receive funeral rites.

Dragging the body of hector

After the death of Hector, Achilles' days were numbered. He continued fighting heroically, killing many of the Trojans and their allies, including Memnon and the Amazon warrior Penthesilia.

Finally Priam's son Paris (or Alexander), aided by Apollo, wounded Achilles in the heel with an arrow; Achilles died of the wound.

 After his death, it was decided to award Achilles' divinely-wrought armour to the bravest of the Greeks. Odysseus and Ajax competed for the prize, with each man making a speech explaining why he deserved the honour; Odysseus won, and Ajax then went mad and committed suicide. During his lifetime, Achilles is also said to have had a number of romantic episodes. He reportedly fell in love with Penthesilia, the Amazon maiden whom he killed in battle, and it is claimed that he married Medea.

Statue of achillies nearby wellington arch

Worship of achillies in antiquity

There was an archaic heroic cult of Achilles on the White Island, Leuce, in the Black Sea off the modern coasts of Romania and Ukraine, with a temple and an oracle which survived into the Roman period.[

Shrine of herom

 Major movie based on it is TROY which was released in 2004

Books based on this myth is The song of achillies and the devil all the time. The wrath of Achillies Illiad

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