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

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

In the Iliad, Aeneas is a minor character, where he is twice saved from death by the gods as if for an as yet unknown destiny.

Most notably, Ajax is not wounded in any of the battles described in the Iliad, and he is the only principal character on either side who does not receive personal assistance from any of the gods who take part in the battles.

* In Iliad Menelaos kills a minor character, Pylaimenes, in combat ; but later he is still alive to witness the death of his son.

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.

Greek mythology attributed the founding of Susa to king Memnon of Aethiopia, a character from Homer's Trojan War epic, the Iliad.

Her character lies at the center of a dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that drives the plot of Homer's Iliad.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

Many critics have also drawn comparisons with Greek mythology, with Martin M. Winkler comparing The Searchers to Homer's Iliad, and specifically the character of Ethan Edwards to Achilles.

Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character of Homer's Iliad.

The character's name is derived from that of Chryseis, a character who appears in the Iliad but has no connection with Troilus, Diomedes or Calchas.

The woman in the love triangle is here called not Cressida but Briseida, a name derived from that of Briseis, a different character in the Iliad, who again is neither related to Calchas nor involved in any love affairs with Troilus or Diomedes.

Famously Aristotle in his Poetics criticises the Cypria and Little Iliad for the piecemeal character of their plots:

* Omero, Iliade, Feltrinelli 2004 ; An Iliad, Vintage International 2004 ( ISBN 978-0-307-27539-4 )-a rewriting of Homer's Iliad consisting of 24 chapters, each telling a part of the story through the eyes and words of a prominent character in the poem.

The generic name comes from Astyanax, a character in Greek mythology who was the son of Hector of Troy ; in homage to this, several specific epithets also refer to the Iliad.

Although he was a major character in the Trojan War as the prince of Nauplia leading the Nauplians, Palamedes is not mentioned in Homer's Iliad.

There is also mention of an Alaksandu, suggested to be Paris Alexander ( King Priam's son from the Iliad ), a later ruler of the city of Wilusa who established peace between Wilusa and Hatti ( see the Alaksandu treaty ).

Homer's Iliad casts Paris as unskilled and cowardly.

These children included several major characters of Homer's Iliad such as the warriors Hector and Paris and the prophetess Cassandra.

In the Iliad he was wounded and put out of action by Paris.

In Homer's Iliad, Podarces and Protesilaus were former suitors of Helen, and therefore bound to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus, her husband, when Helen was kidnapped by Paris.

Tzetzes supplemented Homer's Iliad by a work that begins with the birth of Paris and continues the tale to the Achaeans ' return home.

The Iliaca, an abridgment of and supplement to the Iliad, is divided into three parts Ante-homerica, Homerica, Post-homerica containing the narrative from the birth of Paris to the return of the Greeks after the fall of Troy, in 1676 hexameters ( ed.

While in Paris, Monti devotes more and more of his time to translations from French and Latin, which today are considered to be his best works: he publishes " La Pucelle d ' Orleans " by Voltaire, soon to be followed by the " Satire " by Persio and the " Iliade " ( Iliad ) by Homer.

Apollo is portrayed in the Iliad as the foremost champion of the Trojans and the one who helped Paris kill Achilles.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

That such a tradition lies behind The Iliad and The Odyssey, at least, is hard to deny.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

Thus one line in five from The Iliad and The Odyssey is to be found somewhere else in the two poems.

" In other words, Achilles is an embodiment of the grief of the people, grief being a theme raised numerous times in the Iliad ( frequently by Achilles ).

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

He demanded her return, and the Achaeans complied, indirectly causing the anger of Achilles, which is the theme of the Iliad.

He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

In Homer's Iliad he is described as of great stature, colossal frame and strongest of all the Achaeans.

In the Iliad, Ajax is notable for his abundant strength and courage, seen particularly in two fights with Hector.

Like most of the other Greek leaders, Ajax is alive and well as the Iliad comes to a close.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.