Group+12+-+Achilles

= **Achilles ** =



- Patroclus- Achilles best friend
==**Modern Day Connections ** ==

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Achilles heel suggests that people have hidden weaknesses that they hide from others =====

====     ==== ==**Story of Achilles ** ==
 * ====Achilles was the son of King Peleus and the sea nymph Thetis. ====
 * ====To make son her immortal, Thetis dipped Achilles into the river Styx as a child. With this Achilles became immortal with one exception: The heel that his mother held when she dipped him into the water remained mortal. ====
 * ====// Thetis knew that since Achilles had a "weak spot" which was his heel which remained mortal during the dipping. If he went into battle, there was a slight chance he could die. // ====
 * ====// As a result, he was sent away, disguised as a girl, but eventually he was caught by Odysseus. // ====
 * ====// After he was caught, Achilles agreed to go into the battle at Troy. // ====
 * ====When he is in Troy, he shows to be an unbeatable warrior. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">After getting into a fight with Agamennon, a leader of the Greeks, Achilles refused to fight. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Greeks begged for him to return, but he refused until Patroclus asked him to fight in his place, wearing his armor. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Achilles agreed and the next day, Patroclus was killed. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">After that Achilles went on to defeat many foes and fight heroically. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Then, Paris, with the help of Apollo, shot Achilles with a poison arrow in the one place that he was vulnerable: his heel. Sadly, Achilles died. ====