In Greek mythology, Achilles (, Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.

Later legends ( beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD ) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.

One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

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.

Although not the equal of Achilles in bravery, Agamemnon was a representative of kingly authority.

His chief fault was his overwhelming haughtiness ; an over-exalted opinion of his position that led him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.

In battle, he wore a linen cuirass (), was brave and intrepid, especially skilled in throwing the spear and, next to Achilles, the swiftest of all the Greeks.

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.

Achilles was absent during these encounters because of his feud with Agamemnon.

Although in his later years, towards the end of the Trojan War, his old opponents took his side again against the Greeks under their queen Penthesilea " of Thracian birth ", who was slain by Achilles.

Thetis was a Nereid, but also the future mother of Achilles.

In June 1825, he resolved to embark on an improved version of his " Anger of Achilles " ( also known as the " Sacrifice of Iphigenie "; the earlier version was completed in 1819 and is now in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

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 fell into the ocean and was raised by Thetis ( mother of Achilles ) and the Oceanid Eurynome.

John Cicero was the eldest son of Elector Albert III Achilles of Brandenburg with his first wife Margaret of Baden.

Legend has it that Achilles was born here and Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, died here.

It is slightly contradictory because Larissa was also the birthplace of Achilles sworn enemy of Troyans.

Homer, describing the shield of Achilles, remarked that the labyrinth was Ariadne's ceremonial dancing ground.

Nereus was father to Thetis, one of the Nereids, who in turn was mother to the great Greek hero Achilles, and Amphitrite, who married Poseidon.

Other children of Priam and Hecuba include the prophetic Helenus and Cassandra ; eldest daughter Ilione ; Deiphobus ; Troilus ; Polites ; Creusa, wife of Aeneas ; Laodice, wife of Helicaon ; Polyxena, who was slaughtered on the grave of Achilles ; and Polydorus, his youngest son.

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.

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 Greek mythology, Achilles ' mother bathed him in the river Styx to give him immortality, and Hercules — as the son of Zeus — inherited near-godlike powers.

The first line of Homer ’ s Iliad —“ Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus ’ son Achilles ”— provides an example:

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.

* 1440: Albert I / I / III Achilles ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Elector of Brandenburg )

* lines 14. 210-255 – The greedy son will surpass his father as much as Achilles did Peleus.

They had a son, Achilles Cyrus Alexander, born on 23 July 1825, in Palermo and baptized at San Bartolomeo's.

She is consequently married off to the mortal Peleus, and bears him a son greater than the father — Achilles, Greek hero of the Trojan War.

Priam tearfully pleads with Achilles to take pity on a father bereft of his son and return Hector ’ s body.

Priam begs Achilles to pity him, saying " I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before — I put my lips to the hands of the man who killed my son.

Priam is killed during the Sack of Troy by Achilles ' son Neoptolemus ( also known as Pyrrhus ).

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.

In the second wave of attacks, Achilles killed Cycnus, son of Poseidon.

Achilles captured Lycaon, son of Priam, while he was cutting branches in his father's orchards.

Under coercion, Helenus told the Acheans that they would win if they retrieved Pelops ' bones, persuaded Achilles ' son Neoptolemus to fight for them, and stole the Trojan Palladium.

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, kills King Priam ( detail of Attic black-figure amphora, 520 – 510 BC )

A member of the House of Hohenzollern, Wilhelm was the son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the brother of Albert, Duke of Prussia, and the grandson of Albert III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg and Casimir IV Jagiellon.

Thetis does not need to appeal to Zeus for immortality for her son, but snatches him away to the White Island Leuke in the Black Sea, an alternate Elysium where he has transcended death, and where an Achilles cult lingered into historic times.

Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Endeïs, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly ; he was the father of Achilles.

The marriage of Peleus and Thetis produced a son, Achilles.

Thetis attempted to render her son Achilles invulnerable.