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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Greek mythological hero cult, Achilles, Helen, Heracles, Odysseus, Aeneas, Amazons, Agamemnon, Hercules, Jason, Castor and Pollux, Menelaus, Prometheus, Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Asclepius, Orestes, Iphigenia, Cadmus, Pelops, Aristaeus, Akademos, Amphiaraus, Protesilaus, Erechtheus, Abderus, Butes, Myrtilus, Trophonius, Ceryx, Perseus, Bellerophon, Lycurgus of Sparta, Hyacinth, Aglaulus, daughter of Cecrops, Palamedes, Alcon, Amazonius, Jack, Phalanthus of Tarentum, Alexanor, Sostratus of Dyme, Pleuron, Norax. Excerpt: Helen may refer to: In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: , Akhilleus, pronounced ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. Achilles was named the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy by Plato. 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. As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term "Achilles' heel" has come to mean a person's principal weakness. Achilles' name can be analyzed as a combination of (akhos) "grief" and (Laos) "a people, tribe, nation, etc." In other words, Achilles is an embodiment of the grief of the people, grief being a theme raised numerous times in the Iliad (frequently by Achilles). Achilles' role as the hero of grief forms an ironic juxtaposition with the conventional view of Achilles as the hero of kleos (glory, usually glory in war). Laos has been construed by Gregory Nagy, following Leonard Palmer, to mean a corps of soldiers, a muster. With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war. The poem is in part about the misdirection of anger on...
