no more entreating, dog, by knees or parents. / i only wish my fury would compel me / to cut away your flesh and eat it raw / for what you've done. no one can keep the dogs / off of your head, not if they brought me ransom / of ten or twenty times as much, or more

• family
  • parents/ peleus & thetis
  • siblings/ -
  • wife/ deidamia
  • children/ neoptolemus or pyrrhus
• role
  • greatest fighter of the achaeans
  • greatest fighter of the trojan war
  • aristos achaion
  • stopped fighting out of anger after being wronged by agamemnon
  • went back to war after the death of patroclus
  • killed hector to avenge patroclus' death
• death
  • killed by paris who shot his heel with an arrow
• other
  • achilles received the teachings of the centaur chiron
  • depending on the sources, thetis immerged achilles in the styx to make him immortal; but she had to hold him by the heel, leaving it vulnerable
  • in other stories, she covered him in ambrosia and put him in the fire to burn his mortality and was stopped by peleus

the iliad / the achilleid