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Achillies
Intro to Achillies
Question: Who is Achillies?
Answer: A Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.
Question: Who is Achillies mother?
Answer: His mother was the immortal nymph Thetis.
Question: Who is Achillies father?
Answer: His father was the mortal Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons.
Question: What was Achillies personality
Answer: Achilles was extraordinarily strong, courageous and loyal.
Question: What was Achillies vulnerability?
Answer: His “Achilles heel.”
Early Life
Question: What happened to Achillies at the age of 9?
Answer: A seer predicted that Achilles would die heroically in battle against the Trojans.
Question: What actions were took when the prediction of him dying in the Trojan War was made?
Answer: Thetis disguised him as a girl and sent him to live on the Aegean island of Skyros.
Question: What was his role on the Aegean island of Skyros?
Answer: To be a great warrior.
Question: what did he die as
Answer: hero
Question: Who was Achillies born to?
Answer: Achilles was born to Peleus and Thetis the Nereid
The Trojan War
Question: When did the Trojan war begin?
Answer: The Trojan War began when the god-king Zeus decided to reduce Earth’s mortal population by arranging a war between the Greeks (Homer calls them the Achaean's) and the Trojans.
Question: - who died when achillies return to war
Answer: Patroclus
Question:
Answer: paris
Question: - He killed Hector and dragged him in the chariot despite the latter’s plea to be buried in their land
Answer: hector
Question: - who the greatest warrior of Homer’s Illiad.
Answer: achillies
The Fate OF Achillies
Question: Who was to be the most hansome of the greek heroes against Troy?
Answer: achillies
Question: Who had his own Cult?
Answer: achillies
Question: Trojan War was based on the rescue of ?
Answer: helen
Question: Who was considered to be the greatest Greek Hero of All time?
Answer: achillies
Question: Who said to have a fearsome anger causing him to kill many Trojans?
Answer: achillies
THE ILLIAD
Question: How was he?
Answer: He is a complex warrior who sometimes ignores the cultural norms of his society because he sees through some of its fallacies — in particular, he sees many of the faults in the often narrow and contradictory heroic code.
Question: Where was he dipped as a baby?
Answer: River Styx
Question: What was Achilles code?
Answer: "A man dies still if he has done nothing."
Question: What did Achilles do after Patroklos' death?
Answer: Achilles begins to see life and relationships with other people from a mortal point of view, and at the same time, he is drawing ever closer to the divine aspects of love.
Question: What did Achilles attempt to do?
Answer: he attempts to punish all the Trojans for Patroklos' death and to deny them burial rites for Hektor, so the river god now attempts to drown Achilles, bury him in the mud, and deny him glory and proper burial rites.