There is no particular reason to think that the Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia, preserved in bucolic manuscripts and usually included under his name in modern editions, is Bion's work.

The genus name Achillea is derived from mythical Greek character, Achilles, who reportedly carried it with his army to treat battle wounds.

Antoninus Liberalis said that Iphigenia was transported to the island of Leuke, where she was wedded to immortalized Achilles under the name of Orsilochia.

" Pyrrha " was, possibly, the name used by Achilles while hiding among the king of Skyros ' daughters.

* In Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Hegemon, Briseis is the code name for Petra Arkanian while she was being held prisoner by Achilles de Flandres.

Some versions of this story state that Achilles was hidden in Lycomedes's court as one of the king's daughters, some say as a lady-in-waiting under the name " Pyrrha ".

No flute-player was allowed to enter the sacred precinct, and the name of Achilles was not to be pronounced in it.

* The epigraph of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ) is from Browne's Hydriotaphia ,( Chap. 5 ): " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ".

: What Song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture.

Some sentences of the 5th chapter were cited by Edgar Allan Poe at the beginning of The Murders in the Rue Morgue: " What Song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture.

After he discovers an encoded message in an e-mail sent by Petra confirming that the Russians are Achilles ' backers, he works to free her and the others, while helping Ender's brother Peter come to power under his own name so he can eventually be appointed Hegemon and work against Achilles.

Achilles, wanting his name to be remembered, chooses to go.

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, was from Skyros ( or Scyros, as its name is sometimes transliterated ), as told in the play by Sophocles, Philoctetes ( line 239 ).

The name Achilles ' heel comes from Greek mythology.

He reveals Randall's true parentage ( two of Ender's old friends and squadron commanders, Julian ' Bean ' Delphiki and Petra Arkanian Delphiki Wiggin ), after which Randall renounces his secret name, Achilles, and renames himself Arkanian Delphiki.

* Flemish anatomist Philip Verheyen, in his widely-used text Corporis Humani Anatomia, is the first to record the name of the Achilles tendon.

The three-chamber tomb was inscribed with the name of the deceased for whom it was originally built, Aranth Spurianas or Arath Spuriana, and also depicts Achilles killing the Trojan prince Troilus, along with indications of Apollo cult.

The Greek term Antonomasia, in rhetoric, means substituting any epithet or phrase for a proper name, as Pelides, signifying the " son of Peleus ", to identify Achilles ; an opposite substitution of a proper name for some generic term is also sometimes called antonomasia, as a Cicero for an orator.

However, it should be noted that the use of a father's name or ancestor's name, such as " Pelides " in the case of Achilles, or " Saturnia " in the case of the goddess Juno in Vergil's Aeneid, is specifically called a patronymic device and is in its own class of epithet.

The name Tenedos was derived, according to Apollodorus of Athens, from the Greek hero Tenes, who ruled the island at the time of the Trojan War and was killed by Achilles.

Achilles is the name of the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War.

After these twelve days, the gods can no longer stand watching it and send down two messengers: Iris, another messenger god, and Thetis, mother to Achilles.

Therefore, because there are an infinite number of points Achilles must reach where the tortoise has already been, he can never overtake the tortoise.

While mathematics can be used to calculate where and when the moving Achilles will overtake the Tortoise of Zeno's paradox, philosophers such as Brown and Moorcroft

I hold him mightiest of them all ; we did not fear even their great champion Achilles, son of an immortal though he be, as we do this man: his rage is beyond all bounds, and there is none can vie with him in prowess.

No mortal man, except Achilles, can control or drive them, for an immortal mother gave him birth.

An example of this can be found in the Iliad where Achilles was given the choice ( or Keres ) between either a long and obscure life and home, or death at Troy and everlasting glory.

Dolon tells Odysseus everything he wants to know, including his potential prize, before Odysseus explains to him that he has been tricked by Hector: only Achilles can control the horses that he was to receive.

Turnus can be seen as a " new Achilles ," due to his Greek ancestry and his fierceness.

Accepting a tip from inside China, where Achilles is held prisoner, Peter had planned for Bean to operate the mission, but at the last minute ( because he doubted Bean would cooperate ) assigns Suriyawong, a battle school student from Thailand, to rescue Achilles in transport, believing that he can spy on Achilles, take over his network, and then turn Achilles over to some country for trial ( at the time of this story, Achilles has betrayed Russia, Pakistan, and India ).

Achilles expects Bean to be so besotted with the idea of retrieving his children that he can be killed with a bomb in the transport container for them.

When Bean sees through that trap, Achilles offers up fake embryos in petri dishes, expecting to lure Bean into a vulnerable position where Bean can be killed.

For example " swift footed Achilles " can be seen as looking forward to Hector and Achilles ' race around the walls of Troy.

In the Iliad, Agamemnon promises Achilles that he can take a bride without paying the bride-price ( Greek hednon ), instead receiving a dowry ( pherne ).

Xanthoma can develop in the Achilles tendon in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia.

According to reports by Hakan Alfredson, M. D., and associates of clinical trials in Sweden, the pain in Achilles tendinopathy arises from the nerves associated with neovascularization and can be effectively treated with 1 – 4 small injections of a sclerosant.

Depending on the severity of the injury, recovery from an Achilles injury can take up to 12 – 16 months.

An Achilles ’ heel is a deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, that can actually or potentially lead to downfall.

Achilles, like Siegfried in The Nibelungenlied, is potentially the swiftest of men and may accordingly be called swift-footed even when he stands idle.

Classical dramatisations differ on how willing either father or daughter were to this fate, some include such trickery as claiming she was to be married to Achilles, but Agamemnon did eventually sacrifice Iphigenia.

The tendons of these muscles merge to be inserted onto the calcaneus as the Achilles tendon.

Ajax gives Hector his girdle, which will later be used to attach Hector's corpse to Achilles ' chariot by which he is dragged around the walls of Troy.

The poem ends with Priam's declaration, ' I get down on my knees and do what must be done / And kiss Achilles ' hand, the killer of my son.

He designed Hermes ' winged helmet and sandals, the Aegis breastplate, Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles ' armor, Heracles ' bronze clappers, Helios ' chariot ( and one for himself, to be used on account of his lameness ), the shoulder of Pelops, and Eros ' bow and arrows.

She told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles ' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet.

The theory proposed considered to be the most likely evolution of running is of early humans ' developing as endurance runners from the practice of persistence hunting of animals, the activity of following and chasing until a prey is too exhausted to flee, succumbing to " chase myopathy " ( Sears 2001 ), and that human features such as the nuchal ligament, abundant sweat glands, the Achilles tendons, big knee joints and muscular glutei maximi, were changes caused by this type of activity ( Bramble & Lieberman 2004, et al .).

While landing on Tenedos, Achilles killed king Tenes, son of Apollo, despite a warning by his mother that if he did so he would be killed himself by Apollo.

Prisoners could also potentially be sacrificed on tombs as an honor to fallen leaders of Etruscan society, not unlike the sacrifices made by Achilles for Patrocles.

He is more of a " shoot first, ask questions later " type, and is often the one to get the duo into the various scrapes in which they find themselves, although the character did mature slightly as the seasons passed ; he is also the one more likely to have his eye, or heart, distracted by a pretty girl, which proves to be the Achilles ' heel that leads the Dukes into trouble in several episode plots.

In the Iliad, the rich iconography of Achilles ' shield, which was fashioned by Hephaestus, is enclosed, as the world itself was believed to be, by Oceanus:

Bacchylides relates how Achilles ’ inaction spurred the Trojans to false hope, and how their swollen pride led them to be destroyed at the hands of the men they thought they had vanquished.

Following the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Warren organized the state's civilian defense program, warning in January, 1942, that, " The Japanese situation as it exists in this state today may well be the Achilles heel of the entire civilian defense effort.

The common interpretation of this has been that Achilles was romantically enamored of Penthesilea ( a view that appears to be supported by Pausanias, who noted that the throne of Zeus at Olympia bore Panaenus ' painted image of the dying Penthesilea being supported by Achilles ).

An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Troilus reached the age of twenty alive, but he was killed by Achilles.

Achilles ' ghost had come back to the Greeks, demanding that the wind needed to set sail back to Hellas was to be appeased by the human sacrifice of Polyxena.

She was to be killed at the foot of Achilles ' grave.

Agamemnon fools Clytemnestra into bringing Iphigenia to Aulis by sending a letter to Clytemnestra telling her that Iphigenia will be married to Achilles.

When Xanthus was rebuked by the grieving Achilles for allowing Patroclus to be slain, Hera granted Xanthus human speech which broke Divine law, saying that a god had killed Patroclus, and that a god would soon kill Achilles too.

He believed the fundamentals of the conflict had not changed ; the South Vietnamese regime's unpopularity remained its " Achilles heel " and he continued to believe victory could be achieved through a combination of uprising against the South Vietnamese regime and a communist offensive against it.