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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Achilles

In Greek mythology, Ἀχιλλεύς, transliterated to Akhilleus or Achilleus in Roman letters, Latinized from this ancient Greek to Achilles, appearing in Etruscan as Achle, was a hero (ancient Greek heros, "defender") of the Trojan War, the greatest and the most central character of Homer's Iliad. Achilles - Name. The very first two lines of the Iliad read (in transliteration): "Menin aeide th ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia II - Achilles - Achilles in the Trojan War Achilles - Telephus. When the Greeks left for the Trojan War, they accidentally stopped in Mysia, ruled by King Telephus. In the battle, Achilles wounded Telephus. The wound would not heal and Telephus asked an oracle who stated that "he who is wounded shall heal". According to other reports in Euripides' lost play about Telephus, he went to Aulis pretending to be a beggar and asked Achilles to heal his wound. Achilles refused, claiming to have no medical knowledge. Alternatively, Telephus held Orestes for ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - 588 Achilles

588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on February 22, 1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the Trojan asteroids to be discovered, and is named after Achilles, a fictional hero from the Trojan War. It orbits in the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system. After a few such asteroids were discovered, the rule was established that the L4 point was the "Greek camp", while the L5 point was the "Trojan camp", though not before each camp had acquired a "spy" (624 Hektor in th ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Achille Zavatta

Achille Zavatta (May 6, 1915 - November 16, 1993) was a French clown, artist and circus operator. Achille Zavatta was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, the son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner. He started performing in his family's circus show at the age of three, forming with his brothers Michel and Rolph, the Zavatta Trio. He became famous as a result of his pantomime skills. He died in 1993 in Ouzouer des Champs, Loiret and ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Achilles' heel

Achilles' heel refers to a fatal weakness in a powerful person that leads or may lead to his downfall. It references a vulnerability that the individual may possess. While the mythological reference is physical, this can often be used as a description of an attribute or quality of a person that can lead to their downfall. In Greek mythology, Achilles is made invulnerable by being dipped in the river Styx by his mother, Thetis. However, his mother held him by the heel, and th ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Achilles play

Achilles is a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus. It follows the Greek hero Achilles during the Trojan War, wherein he defeats Hector and eventually gets killed by Paris when an arrow punctures his heel. The play had been known to exist due to the work of Aristophanes and his various mentions of the play. It had long been believed to be lost in the great fire of the Library of Alexandria in 48 BC. However, in the early 1990s sections of the play on papyrus were discovered inside an Egyptian mummy - which, along with ext ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Achilles Last Stand

"Achilles Last Stand" is a song by British rock group Led Zeppelin. It is found on the 1976 album Presence. Led Zeppelin was working on this at the time Robert Plant was recovering from a car accident. Coincidentally, he got so excited while recording this that he fell and re-injured his ankle, similarly to the song's namesake, Achilles. The song is one of the longest Zeppelin songs, at 10 minutes and 25 seconds. The song is famous for John Bonham's powerful drumming and Jimmy Page's many-a-time overdubbed guitar playing. It ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Achill Island

Achill Island (Irish; Acaill, Oileán Acla) in County Mayo is the largest island off Ireland, and is situated off the west coast. It has a population of 2700. Its area is 57 square miles (146 square kilometres). Achill is attached to the mainland by Michael Davitt Bridge, between the villages of Achill Sound and Polranny, so it is possible to drive onto the island. This is a swing bridge which allows the passage of small boats. A bridge was first completed here in 1886, and replaced by the current structure after World War II. ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Thetis

In Greek mythology, silver-footed Thetis (Greek Θέτις) is a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of "the ancient one of the seas," Nereus, and Doris (Hesiod, Theogony), a grand-daughter of Tethys. Thetis - Thetis as goddess. While most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, and while she is largely a creature of poetic fancy rather than cult worship in the historical period, a few fragmentary hints and references suggest an older layer of the tradition wh ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Achille Lauro

The Achille Lauro was a passenger liner, most remembered for its 1985 hijacking. Ordered in 1938, her keel was laid in 1939 at Vlissingen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Interrupted by World War II and two bombing raids, the ship was not launched until July 1946 as the Willem Ruys. Completed in late 1947, she began her maiden voyage on December 2, 1947. She was 192 metres in length, 25 metres in beam, 8.9 metres high and weighed 21,110 tons fully loaded with 900 passengers and crew. She had 8 Sulzer engines ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Zeno's paradoxes

Zeno's paradoxes are a set of paradoxes devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides' doctrine that "all is one" and that contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion. Several of Zeno's eight surviving paradoxes (preserved in Aristotle's Physics and Simplicius's commentary thereon) are essentially equivalent to one another; and most of them were regarded, even in ancient times, as very easy to refute. Three of the strongest and most famous—that of Achilles and the tortoise, the Dichotomy arg ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Xenophon of Ephesus

Xenophon of Ephesus (fl. 2nd century–3rd century?) was a Greek writer. His surviving work is the Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes, one of the earliest novels as well as one of the sources for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He is not to be confused with the earlier and more famous Athenian soldier and historian, Xenophon. See also. Other ancient Greek novelists: Chariton - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Cleitophon < ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Briseis

In Greek mythology, Brisēis (Greek Βρισηίς) was a Trojan widow (from Lyrnessus) who was abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles upon the death of her three brothers and husband, King Mynes of Lyrnessus, in the fight. After an oracle forced Agamemnon to give up Chryseis, a woman he had captured, the king ordered his heralds Talthybius and Eryrates to take Briseis from Achilles as compensation. Achilles was offended by this seizure and, as a result, withdrew from the fighting. He did not re ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Automedon

In Greek mythology, Automedon, son of Diores, was Achilles' charioteer. In Homer's Iliad, he rides into battle once Patroclus has donned Achilles' armor, commanding Achilles' horses Balius and Xanthos. After Patroclos's death, Automedon is driven to the rear of the battle, where he attempts to console the bereaved horses. Zeus finally intervenes, and Automedon resumes driving the chariot, but can not aid the Achaeans until Alcimidon agrees to be his driver. He repels an attempt on his life by Hector, Aeneas, Chromios, and Aretos, killing Aretos and taking his armor in the ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Andromache

In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebes (=Thebe-under-Placus), over which her father ruled. During the Trojan War, Hector was killed by Achilles. Their infant son Astyanax was killed by Achilles' son Neoptolemus. Neoptolemus took her as a concubine and Hector's brother, Helenus, as a slave. With Hector, Andromache had a son named Astyanax. By Neoptolemus, she was the mother of Molossus. When Neoptolemus died, Andromache married Helenu ...

Achilles: Encyclopedia - Ambrosia

In ancient mythology, Ambrosia (Greek ἀμβροσία) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods. The word has generally been derived from Greek a- ("not") and mbrotos ("mortal"); hence the food or drink of the immortals. Thetis anointed the infant Achilles with ambrosia and passed the child through the fire to make him immortal—a familiar Phoenician custom—but Peleus, appalled, stopped her. In Iliad xvi Apollo washed the black blood from the corpse of Sa ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Chryseis

In Greek mythology, Chryseis (Greek: Χρύσηίς, Khrysēís) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Her real name was Astynome; 'Chryseis' was a patronym, deribed from her father, Chryses. In the first book of the Iliad, Agamemnon takes her as a war prize and refuses to allow her father, a priest of Apollo, to ransom her. An oracle of Apollo then sends a plague sweeping through the Greek armies and Agamemnon is forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it. Agamemnon compensates himself for this loss by taking Briseis from Achilles, an act that offends Achilles, who ...

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Achilles: Encyclopedia - Ankle jerk reflex

The ankle jerk reflex, also known as the Achilles reflex, occurs when the Achilles tendon is tapped while the foot is dorsi-flexed. A positive result would be the jerking of the foot towards its plantar surface. The Achilles reflex checks if the s1 and s2 nerve roots are intact and could be indicative of sciatic nerve pathology. It is classically delayed in hypothyroidism. See also. Tonic vibration reflex ...

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