Crossword clues for achilles
achilles
- Mythical hero with a bum heel?
- Paris was too much for him
- Greek warrior famous for his weak spot
- Warrior with a vulnerable heel
- Not well-heeled man
- Mythological warrior with a vulnerable heel
- Mythical hero with a bum heel
- His wrath fills the "Iliad"
- He had a heel that wouldn't heal
- Greek hero of the Trojan War
- Greek hero (with heel and tendon)
- Friend of Antilochus
- Commander of the Myrmidons
- "Troilus and Cressida" figure
- 'Iliad' hero
- ''Iliad'' hero
- Weak spot
- Ill in Chelsea, he developed a fatal weakness
- Not so well-heeled person?
- Victim of Paris
- See 22-Across
- A mythical Greek hero of Homer's Iliad
- A foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy
- When he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his
- Homeric protagonist
- Paris was his undoing
- Valets alternately clothing cool, classical hero
- Mythical Greek warrior with a foot problem
- Old Greek warrior catching cold in choppy sea
- Pains gripping sick old Greek
- Heroic Greek units holding an elevated position
- Hero fell among stars
- Trojan War hero
- Kind of heel
- Mythical figure
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Achilles \Achilles\ n. 1. a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the seige of Troy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context Greek mythology English) semi-divine hero, son of Peleus and the nymph Thetis, prince and leader of the Myrmidons; great warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp, killed in the Trojan War; central character of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, Achilles (; , Akhilleus, ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. His mother was the nymph Thetis, and his father, Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons.
Achilles’ most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan hero Hector outside the gates of Troy. Although the death of Achilles is not presented in the Iliad, other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him in the heel with an arrow. 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. Because of his death from a small wound in the heel, the term Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's point of weakness.
Achilles is the name of the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War.
Achilles may also refer to:
The Achilles was an English shaft drive voiturette manufactured by B Thompson & Co. in Frome, Somerset between 1903 and 1908.
A range of cars were advertised, mostly with single-cylinder engines by Aster and De Dion. Other mechanical parts were also bought in, and it seems likely that only the bodies were originated by Achilles. At least 5 different models were produced including the 8 hp, 9 hp and 12 hp.
This car is notably seen in the French comic book Achille Talon, created by Michel Regnier (known by the pseudonym Greg), for the Pilote redaction.
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Achilles is an American hardcore punk band from Rochester, Upstate New York. Formed in 2004, the band currently consists of Rory van Grol ( vocals), Rob Antonucci ( guitar), Josh Dillon ( bass) and Chris Browne ( drums).
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The Achilles was a motorcycle manufactured between 1906 and 1912 in the former Czechoslovakia. The bikes were powered by 3.5 hp single-cylinder and 5 hp V-twin engines built by Fafnir and Zeus.
The Achilles company built scooters and mopeds in West Germany between 1953 and 1957. The moped was powered by a 48cc engine, while the scooters were powered by 98cc and 123cc Sachs engines. When the factory closed down, the British Norman Cycles firm purchased the production equipment to manufacture their own moped.
Achilles or Achilleus (died after 1201) was a Hungarian noble, who served as Judge royal in 1201, during the reign of Emeric, King of Hungary. Beside that he was also ispán of Keve County.
Presumably he was identical with a certain ispán Achilles, who was mentioned in a royal charter issued in 1184, where an investigation took place on the subject of serfs' affiliation in Úrkút.
Usage examples of "achilles".
Achilles, leader of the Myrmidons, one of the largest contingents of the Achaean army, summons the chieftains to an assembly.
Patroclus, sent by Achilles to find out how things stand in the Achaean camp, brings back the news and also pleads with Achilles to relent.
Achilles is a war between the assembled armies of the Achaean cities and Troy, a rich, fortified city on the coast of Asia Minor near the Hellespont, the narrow western outlet of the long passage from the Black Sea to the Aegean.
Achilles has come as close as he ever could to saying that he was wrong, but Agamemnon, even now, tries to justify himself as he addresses not only Achilles but also the army as a whole, which, as he is fully aware, blames him for the Achaean losses.
And everyone knows the story of Achilles and Penthesilea: how that hero of the Trojan War, after besting and slaying that Queen of the Amazons, further dishonored her by having sexual intercourse with her corpse.
In addition to the knife, Achilles carried a Mossberg Model 500 Bullpup, a futuristic slide-action shotgun.
Pelides consents that Patroclus shall put on his own armor and lead his Myrmidons into the fight, where Achilles arouses and sets in array his terrible warriors, has the steeds yoked and prays Dodonian Jove to give to his friend the victory, and then to grant him safe return.
As if hearing my stomach rumbling, Achilles looks out into the foyer and almost freezes with surprise.
Achilles quickly brushed away the mist from his eyes, the magic, godsent haze.
The other two Iliadic armings are those of Patroclus, full of pathos, and of Achilles, full of wrath, but also of foreboding, for it is on this occasion that the horse Xanthos prophesies his coming death.
Odysseus meets the shades of his comrades Agamemnon and Achilles in Hades, Iliadic material is avoided: Agamemnon tells the story of his death at the hands of his wife and her lover, Odysseus tells Achilles about the heroic feats of arms of his son Neoptolemus and later talks to Ajax about the award of the arms of Achilles.
Then suddenly there sped the bolt of Fate, And smote Achilles by the Ilian wall: XLIII.
Athenian, Leucon, who was found in possession of a gilded pendant in the shape of a beetle, the property of Achilles.
Finally Menelaus and Meriones carried the body of Patroclus back to the black ships, back to the grieving Achilles, while the two Ajaxes repelled the pursuit.
Troy with Achilles, or suffered with Odysseus in his wanderings, or descended the icy depths to seek out Grendel with Beowulf, or journeyed with the Time Traveller of Wells, or visited those wild weird stars of Olive Schneider, or escaped from the Mohegans with Natty Bumppo.