Achilles

Achilles

The story of Achilles is that his mother dipped him into the River Styx to make him immortal. This made him invulnerable except for the heel by which his mother held him. Achilles was the son of the sea nymph, Thetis, and Peleus, king of the Myrmidons of Thessaly.

When Agamemnon, the king of Mycenean took the maiden Briseis from him, Achilles withdrew from the battle. The Trojans started winning the war when the Myrmidons fled in retreat since Achilles, the Greek hero, was no longer fighting. Patroclus, Achilles dearest friend, led the Greeks into battle and was later killed by Hector. Achilles returned to battle to avenge his friend’s death and slew Hector whom he dragged through the streets behind a chariot. In the last battle of the Trojan War Achilles killed the king of the Ethiopians. Then he led his troops to Troy where he meets death by a wound to his heel by Paris.