It will then take Achilles some further time to run that distance, by which time the tortoise will have advanced farther ; and then more time still to reach this third point, while the tortoise moves ahead.

Thus, whenever Achilles reaches somewhere the tortoise has been, he still has farther to go.

Margrave Albert Achilles, who was also Elector of Brandenburg, presented the town Bayreuth in December 1457 which the coat of arms that it still bears today.

In 1900, the centralized community of Midland was centered on the corner of Achilles ( also known as Summit Road ) and Van Buren St. known today as 104th St E. and Portland Ave E. Remember, in 1900 the Tacoma Eastern tracks were still on the east side of Van Buren ( Portland Ave ).

When Achilles demands that " If you accept A and B and C, you must accept Z ," the Tortoise remarks that that's another hypothetical proposition, and suggests even if it accepts C, it could still fail to conclude Z if it did not see the truth of:

Because the Internet was still a relatively new phenomenon, the domain of academics and geeks, Demon's home-dialup focus was also its Achilles heel.

Bean flies to Brazil and kills Achilles, having already decided that Achilles was lying about possessing the embryos and that Volescu must still have them.

In 1992 Liverpool won the FA Cup again but Barnes missed the final with an Achilles tendon injury, which he later cited in his autobiography as dulling his acceleration, affecting his ability to push off from a still position, whilst not affecting his pace at full.

Also off Main Street stood the Achilles one-room schoolhouse, which is still standing and used for community events.

In 1993 Achilles was still marked on Kansas State maps, but by 2001 it was no longer acknowledged on newly published maps.

In the Phrygians (, Phrýges ) or Ransom of Hector ( Ἕκτορος λύτρα, Héktoros lútra ), Priam and a chorus of Phrygians sought to retrieve Hector's body from the still wroth Achilles.

During the 2006 pre-season, he was still hobbled from his Achilles injury, only catching one pass for four yards.

Hector kicks Achilles in his one weak point, his heel, and drives him to the ground, where he frantically slashes at his foe, but is still unable to harm him.

In 2006, while recovering from a torn Achilles tendon, Spikes played in 12 games while missing 4 games early in the season due to a hamstring injury.

After recovering from the Achilles injury that had Guccione sidelined for over 6 months, he had finally made his comeback appearance at the Wimbledon tune-up event ; the 2010 AEGON Championships.

Achilles and the Nereid Cymothoe: Attic red-figure kantharos from Volci ( Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris )

Even Poseidon, who normally favors the Greeks, comes to Aeneas ' rescue after he falls under the assault of Achilles, noting that Aeneas, though from a junior branch of the royal family, is destined to become king of the Trojan people.

Agamemnon took an attractive slave, Briseis, one of the spoils of war, from Achilles.

Achilles, the greatest warrior of the age, withdrew from battle in revenge and nearly cost the Greek armies the war.

Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.

* Ainia, presumably accompanied Penthesilea to the Trojan War, killed by Achilles ; known only from an Attic terracotta relief fragment.

By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus ( father of Achilles ), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to the two others, both of whom contrived to kill Phocus during a contest, and then fled from their native island.

In his response, Achilles points out that while Hector was terrorizing the Greek forces now, while he himself had fought in their front lines, Hector had ' no wish ' to take his force far beyond the walls and out from the Skiaian Gate and nearby oak tree.

He requests from Achilles that the victor would return the other's body after the duel, ( though Hector himself made it clear he planned to throw Patroclus ' body to the dogs ) but Achilles refuses.

For the next twelve days, Achilles mistreats the body, but it remains preserved from all injury by Apollo and Aphrodite.

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.

Confident that he had done enough, Nurmi stopped and retired from the race due to problems with his Achilles tendon.

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 .).

Achilles, after being killed, was snatched from his funeral pyre by his divine mother Thetis and resurrected, brought to an immortal existence in either Leuce, Elysian plains or the Islands of the Blessed.

Patroclus was then killed by Hector, who took Achilles ' armour from the body of Patroclus.

Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector's body around Troy, from a panoramic fresco of the Achilleion ( Corfu ) | Achilleion

Achilles killed Hector, and afterwards he dragged Hector's body from his chariot and refused to return the body to the Trojans for burial.

She was purified from this action by Priam, and in exchange she fought for him and killed many, including Machaon ( according to Pausanias, Machaon was killed by Eurypylus ), and according to another version, Achilles himself, who was resurrected at the request of Thetis.

Thus the kings of Epirus claimed their lineage from Achilles, and so did Alexander the Great, whose mother was of that royal house.

Quintus of Smyrna, recalling this passage, does write that Thetis once released Zeus from chains ; but there is no other reference to this rebellion among the Olympians, and some readers, such as M. M. Willcock, have understood the episode as an ad hoc invention of Homer's to support Achilles ' request that his mother intervene with Zeus.

* August 13 – First Margrave War: Brandenburg Margrave Albrecht Achilles takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.

Chiron and Achilles in a fresco from Herculaneum ( Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples ).

Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.

Patroclus, Achilles ' closest companion, disguised in the armor of Achilles, enters the combat leading the Myrmidons and the rest of the Achaeans to force a Trojan withdrawal.

Hector strips the armor of Achilles off the fallen Patroclus and gives it to his men to take back to the city.

In Iliad XVIII, when Thetis cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for the slain Patroclus:

Only 12 days later Achilles slew him, after the death of Patroclus.

An earlier appeal to Achilles to return was rejected, but after Hector burned Protesilaus ' ship, he allowed his close friend and relative Patroclus to go into battle wearing Achilles ' armour and lead his army.

Hektor, like Achilles, belonged to the swarm (" ahead " of the planet in its orbit ), while Patroclus was the first asteroid known to reside at the Lagrangian point (" behind " the planet ).

As recounted in Homer's Iliad, Iphis was the mistress of Patroclus, Achilles ' companion-in-arms.

A native of Scyros, she had been enslaved by Achilles when the latter conquered her home island, and given by him to Patroclus.

Achilles ' comrade-in-arms Patroclus used to feed and groom these horses.

At Iliad 17. 590, Automedon, Achilles ' charioteer, states that only Patroclus was able to fully control these horses.

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.

Similarly, in Alexandre Dumas ' La Reine Margot, the devotion shared between friends ( and one-time foes ) Annibal de Coconnas and Lerac de la Mole is compared to that of Pylades and Orestes, as well as that of Nisus and Euryalus, Castor and Pollux, Achilles and Patroclus, as well as various other pairs of brothers, friends and lovers in classical mythology.

Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.