(Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
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Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
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c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
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Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful springOf woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
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1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, chapter 1, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
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If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.
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1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1)[1], Edinburgh, London: T. N. Foulis, page 36:
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In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.
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2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyondhttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=TiHelJASOvcC&pg=PA153&dq=%22Achilles%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjatsXn6M7hAhWYfCsKHX-XAscQ6AEI1gEwHw#v=onepage&q=%22Achilles%22&f=false, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153: