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 also suggested that since the book does not mention the death of Paul, a central character in the final chapters, it was likely penned before his death.

Bayezid ( spelt Bayazid ) is a central character in the Robert E. Howard story Lord of Samarcand.

Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.

Northern Ontario is home to a wide array of mines, while the fishing industry has long been central to the character of the Atlantic provinces, though it has recently been in steep decline.

When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

Bet stood as the central character of the show from 1985 until departing in 1995, often being dubbed as " Queen of the Street " by the media, and indeed herself.

The central character is NDR, a robot who begins to modify himself with organic components.

* Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character.

Actually the film draws its central character, Allan Gray, from Le Fanu's Dr. Hesselius ; and the scene in which Gray is buried alive is drawn from " The Room in the Dragon Volant ".

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

As filmed in 1932, with Tom Mix in the starring role, the central character differed in that Destry did wear six-guns in that version.

" Film critics sometimes use the term " pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters ( often including a central female character ) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences.

Although opinions differ as to his character there is no dispute over his great achievements: he helped to save the Habsburg Empire from French conquest ; he broke the westward thrust of the Ottomans, liberating central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish occupation ; and he was one of the great patrons of the arts whose building legacy can still be seen in Vienna today.

The central character in Ringworld, celebrating his birthday, teleports across time-zones to " lengthen " his birthday multiple times ( particularly notable since the first edition had the error of the character heading the wrong direction, increasing that edition's value ).

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

The tendency of actor-managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics ' approval.

In contrast to the " effeminate " view of the central character that usually accompanied a female casting, she described her character as " manly and resolute, but nonetheless thoughtful ... thinks before he acts, a trait indicative of great strength and great spiritual power ".

He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show ( 1951 – 60 ).

As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.

The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen.

One matter of concern to the complete effectiveness of pool operations is the lack of adequate central garage facilities.

You can install it yourself -- this is a central system that will cool every part of your house.

Best of all, central air conditioning is something you can afford.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.

On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.

The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.

The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.

Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.

It has further been shown that: ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ;

And in the economy of the book it is not peripheral but central.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.