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Achilles

The best fighter at Troy and the shortest-lived, proof against wounds everywhere except the heel his mother had held him by. He was offered a long and forgettable life instead, and turned it down.

Achilles
Thetis grips the infant Achilles by the heel and plunges him into the waters of the River Styx to make him invulnerable, the one spot her hand covers left mortal. Modello painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1630–1635.

The journey

3 myths · 2 places

  1. 1 Achilles and the River Styx Nonacris
  2. 2 Achilles and Hector Troy
  3. 3 The Death of Achilles Troy
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