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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Deeds of Apollo, Kings of the Myrmidons, Mythological rapists, Medea, Achilles
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Achilles  Achiles  Achilleus  Achillies  Achillis
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A mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel' WordNet 3.0
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A mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel' WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus Wikipedia
Name of a Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War. Wikipedia Disambiguation
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. Wiktionary
Greek mythical hero. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
mythical being
HAS PART
Achilles' heel
CHILD
Euphorion
Neoptolemus
CONFLICT
Trojan War
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Otto's encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Literary Encyclopedia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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ENEMY OF
Hector
FATHER
Peleus
GIVEN NAME
Achilles
KILLED BY
Paris
MOTHER
Thetis
NARRATIVE ROLE
main character
PLACE OF BURIAL
Snake Island
PLACE OF DEATH
Troy
PRESENT IN WORK
Divine Comedy
Iliad
Hades
SEX OR GENDER
male
SPOUSE
Helen
Deidamia
UNMARRIED PARTNER
Helen
Patroclus
Penthesilea
Briseis
Diomede daughter of Phorbas
WORSHIPPED BY
Greek mythology
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Achilles
Wikipedia
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Achilles
Wikidata
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Achilles
Wiktionary
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Achilles
Wikipedia Redirections
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Achiles, Achilleus, Achillies, Achillis, Achle, Akhilles, Akhilleus, Akhilleus Aiakides, Akhilleus Aiákidês, Akilles, Akkilles, Peleion, Pelides, Αχιλλέας, Ἀχιλλεύς
Wikidata Alias
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Achilleus, Peleiades, Pelides

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