In the Iliad, Achilles uses Peleus ' immortal horses and also wields his father's spear.

") It is possible that his speech was a later addition to the epic, as Achilles continually uses a special dual verb form in speaking with his guests, rather than a more appropriate plural form.

" Aelian takes the latter view when he uses just such an expression when describing the visit to Troy: " Alexander laid a garland on Achilles ' tomb and Hephaestion on Patroclus ', indicating that he was Alexander's eromenos, as Patroclus was of Achilles.

He uses his influence to put Bean in a military position in Thailand, which he and Bean perceive to be the target of a future attack by Achilles ' India.

At the same time, Achilles uses his power to attempt to kill Bean multiple times.

Achilles uses the vast network he has built to attempt to kill Peter Wiggin ; he forcefully coerces Uphanad ( once a Battle School officer, now an official at the Ministry of Colonization ) to do the work.

He uses the war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire as background for the novel The Turkish Gambit ; the death of the " White General " Mikhail Skobelev ( as ' Mikhail Sobolev ') in The Death of Achilles ; and the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and the Khodynka Tragedy for Coronation, or the Last of the Romanovs.

Known as the ' bulwark of the Mycenaeans ', he was trained by the centaur Chiron ( who had trained his father, Telamon, and Achilles ' father Peleus ), at the same time as Achilles.

If we suppose that each racer starts running at some constant speed ( one very fast and one very slow ), then after some finite time, Achilles will have run 100 metres, bringing him to the tortoise's starting point.

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.

However, every time he shot an arrow at Hector, Apollo, the protector of the Trojans, would foil the shot-an ironic reference to the fact that Apollo would guide Paris ' arrow into Achilles ' heel.

Diomedes said, " Let Achilles stay or leave if he wishes to, but he will fight when the time comes.

Achilles ' grief was great and for some time, he refused to dispose of Patroclus ' body ; but he was persuaded to do so by an apparition of Patroclus, who told Achilles he could not enter Hades without a proper cremation.

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 ).

At the same time, a message is passed to Bean that Han Tzu, a comrade from Battle School, was not in fact the informant in the message sent to Peter about Achilles.

Despite having under 20, 000 inhabitants, Groesbeek has two clubs playing in the Topklasse, the country's highest amateur level, at the same time ( De Treffers, and Achilles ' 29 ).

The Tortoise continues to accept each hypothetical premise once Achilles writes it down, but denies that the conclusion necessarily follows, since each time it denies the hypothetical that if all the premises written down so far are true, Z must be true:

* HMNZS Achilles played by herself ( at the time in service with the Indian Navy as INS Delhi )

" It is not surprising that Alexander was as closely attached to Hephaestion as Achilles was to Patroclus ", and " At the time of his death Hephaestion held the highest single command, that of the Companion Cavalry ; and had been repeatedly second in command to Alexander in the hierarchy of the Asian court, holding the title of Chiliarch, which had been held by Nabarzanes under Darius.

Already the two were intimate, Patroclus and Achilles even to those around them ; the comparison would remain to the end of their days and is proof of their life as lovers, for by Alexander's time, Achilles and Patroclus were agreed to have enjoyed the relationship which Homer himself had never directly mentioned.

He instead suggests that Achilles must inevitably come up to the point where the tortoise has started from, but by the time he has accomplished this, the tortoise will already have moved on to another point.

This continues, and every time Achilles reaches the mark where the tortoise was, the tortoise will create a new point that Achilles will have to catch up with ; while it begins with 0. 9 metres, it becomes an additional 0. 09 metres, then 0. 009 metres, and so on, infinitely.

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.

Like Achilles, he is represented ( although not by Homer ) as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube.

She fought Achilles and died after he seriously wounded her.

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.

* Helene ( Amazon ), a daughter of Tityrus and an Amazon who fought Achilles and died after he seriously wounded her

However, in Book XX he rescues Aeneas after the Trojan prince is laid low by Achilles.

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.

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.

Penthesilia was then killed by Achilles who fell in love with her beauty after her death.

Achilles slew Thersites, and after a dispute sailed to Lesbos, where he was purified for his murder by Odysseus after sacrificing to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto.

Asteroids in the group are named after Greek heroes ( the " Greek node or camp " or " Achilles group "), and those at the point are named after the heroes of Troy ( the " Trojan node or camp ").

* December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles, and HMS Exeter after a running battle off the coast of Uruguay.

It was named Achílleion ( Αχίλλειον ) after the Homeric hero Achilles.

" He was admitted to the Painting Department of the École des Beaux-Arts in October 1799, and won, after tying for second place in 1800, the Grand Prix de Rome in 1801 for his Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles.

Achilles Clark, a soldier with the 20th Tennessee cavalry, wrote to his sister immediately after the battle: " The slaughter was awful.

Things soon changed after Orestes committed matricide: Menelaus then gave his daughter to Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and Deidamia.

In an almost identical line ( X. 391 ) that suggests a formulaic expression, Achilles tells the Myrmidons to sing the paean after the death of Hector.

In the Pseudo-Apollodorus Epitome of the Bibliotheke she is said to have been killed by Achilles, " who fell in love with the Amazon after her death and slew Thersites for jeering at him ".

Achilles, still recovering from Patroclus ' death, found Polyxena's words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of Apollo to meet her after her devotions.