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Achilles

Achilles is the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War in Greek legend and the central figure of Homer's Iliad. The son of the hero Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, he killed the Trojan prince Hector and was himself killed by an arrow of Paris. He was worshipped as a hero, notably around the Black Sea at Olbia and on the island of Leuke, and the Molossian kings of Epirus claimed descent from his son Neoptolemus.

Achilles
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Achilles. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/achilles
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