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  • I hadn't witnessed such a tense greeting since Patroclus met Achilles's war prize, Briseis.†   (source)
  • Maybe find Raven's Achilles' heel Sneak up, get a drop, slip a mickey, pull a fast one.†   (source)
  • She might as well have drawn a bull's-eye on her Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • Each one of us seemed to have an Achilles' heel—and the instructors excelled at finding it.†   (source)
  • Who does he think he is — Achilles?†   (source)
  • No Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • USAID concrete, Rockefeller funds, and a Greek contractor named Achilles had built a new one.†   (source)
  • Her Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • But my mouth soon became my Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • We don't have some great weakness, an Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • Sex is John Kennedy's Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • From all the stories and rumors, my little brother thinks you're Achilles reborn!†   (source)
  • "It's Achilles'," I say.†   (source)
  • We spent the first ten minutes discussing the Iliad, and whether or not the text actually states that Achilles had been dipped in the River Styx.†   (source)
  • That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it.†   (source)
  • Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart; Ta-Kumsaw lived a story like Achilles or Odysseus, Caesar or Hannibal, David or the Maccabees.†   (source)
  • So let's assume that you do and put on the finest show since Achilles slew Hector and I pass you.†   (source)
  • That some Elephants have not only written whole sentences, as Æilan ocularly testifieth, but have also spoken, as Oppianus delivereth, and Christophorus à Costa particularly relateth (although it sound like that of Achilles' Horse in Homer), we do not conceive impossible.†   (source)
  • 'Do you know,' he said, 'that Achilles went to war at seventeen?'   (source)
  • Like having Achilles to run your errands.   (source)
  • Ajax could barely hold against him, and only Achilles could have beaten him.   (source)
  • When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?   (source)
  • The Best of the Greeks after Achilles, wielding his bow once more.   (source)
  • After Achilles died, Agamemnon named me Best of the Greeks.   (source)
  • I saw Achilles and Patroclus, and Ajax bearing the wound he gave himself.   (source)
  • When he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus?   (source)
  • Achilles went mad when he died; nearly mad, anyway.   (source)
  • His speed was second only to Achilles'.   (source)
  • Had not Odysseus once told me a story about Achilles' sea-nymph mother, who had found a way to bargain with Zeus?   (source)
  • When Achilles puts on his helmet and cleaves his red path through the field, the hearts of common men swell in their chests.   (source)
  • Achilles killed Hector, and after, when Achilles' son, Pyrrhus, stormed the palace, he took the child Astyanax and smashed open his head.   (source)
  • His voice rolled like a bard's: Achilles, prince of Phthia, swiftest of all the Greeks, best of the Achaian warriors at Troy.   (source)
  • Achilles and Patroclus, Ajax, Hector.   (source)
  • He would gather my weaknesses up and set them with the rest of his collection, alongside Achilles' and Ajax's.   (source)
  • Odysseus tricking Achilles out of hiding and bringing him to war, Odysseus creeping at moondark into the camp of King Rhesus, one of Troy's allies, and cutting the men's throats while they slept.   (source)
  • For entertainment, Odysseus told them heroic stories of Achilles, Ajax, Diomedes, making them live again in the twilight air and perform their glorious deeds.   (source)
  • There he saw many of the souls he had known in life, Ajax, Agamemnon, and with them Achilles, once Best of the Greeks, who chose an early death as payment for eternal fame.   (source)
  • He could still marshal himself, show the face he must have worn each day to harness Achilles, but it cost him, and after he was prone to moods and tempers.   (source)
  • But Achilles reproached him.   (source)
  • Now there was a wine that would clash with the stew as Achilles clashed with Hector.†   (source)
  • Marcus looked up just as the massive marble statue of Achilles came crashing down on top of him.†   (source)
  • If Achilles did it or Odysseus went there, so does Aeneas.†   (source)
  • Poor Achilles had lost his head, which was now rolling slowly in the street.†   (source)
  • It is the story of a single, rather lengthy action: the wrath of Achilles.†   (source)
  • A huge marble statue of the warrior Achilles looked down on him.†   (source)
  • Achilles' grief at the loss of his beloved friend is truly heartbreaking.†   (source)
  • The need to maintain one's dignity: Achilles.†   (source)
  • I guess you'd call it an Achilles' heel."†   (source)
  • "Achilles' heel, not aching heel, you bloody stupid fool."†   (source)
  • The mark of Achilles is a Greek blessing.†   (source)
  • I've got the curse of Achilles now I'll all invincible and stuff?'†   (source)
  • "Does anyone else know about this Achilles' heel?"†   (source)
  • He had bathed in the River Styx and taken on the powers of the greatest mortal hero, Achilles.†   (source)
  • And I realize that even Mr. Fowlson has his Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • We fought for King Priam in the Trojan War, but Achilles killed our queen, Penthesilea.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered Chiron had taught Achilles.†   (source)
  • As for you, Percy Jackson, it's true you bear the mark of Achilles.†   (source)
  • Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles.†   (source)
  • It sounded eerily close to what Achilles had told me.†   (source)
  • Assuming you live:' "Curse of Achilles," Hudson snorted.†   (source)
  • "Percy Jackson," he said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you.†   (source)
  • Then I leaned in close and whispered: "My Achilles spot.†   (source)
  • I remembered Achilles falling on the plains of Troy, cut down by an unworthy archer because of my wrath.†   (source)
  • Thus, on his way to completing the twenty-yard dash, Achilles must traverse an infinite number of lengths— which, by definition, would take an infinite amount of time.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that I'd seen that keen look in Chiron's eyes before—when he'd assessed Achilles's sword technique and Ajax's skill with a spear.†   (source)
  • Luckily, the answer to this conundrum was provided by the philosopher Zeno in the fifth century B.C. Achilles, a man of action and urgency, trained to measure his exertions to the tenth of a second, should be able to quickly dispense with a twenty-yard dash.†   (source)
  • Achilles Agonistes†   (source)
  • Indeed, Oedipus's feet are damaged from the thong that was put through his Achilles tendons when, as an infant, he was sent away to die in the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Achilles becomes angry with his leader, Agamemnon, withdraws his support from the Greeks, only rejoining the battle when the consequences of his action have destroyed his best friend, Patroclus.†   (source)
  • Achilles destroys the thing he holds most dear, his lifelong friend Patroclus, and dooms himself to an early death by allowing excessive pride to overrule his judgment.†   (source)
  • The big duels—between Hector and Ajax, between Diomedes and Paris, between Hector and Patroclus, between Hector and Achilles—are genuinely exciting and suspenseful, their outcomes sources of grand celebration and dismay.†   (source)
  • Agamemnon, forced by divine order and by public 70 How TO READ LITERATURL LIKE A PROFESSOR sentiment to return his concubine to her father, retaliates against the person who most publicly sided against him, Achilles, by taking his concubine, Briseis.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the very setup of the epic, in which Achilles throws a fit and withdraws from the war because his sex slave has been taken from him, does not engage our sympathies as it would have those of the ancient Greek audience.†   (source)
  • You'll lose the mark of Achilles.†   (source)
  • What about Achilles?†   (source)
  • Rather than having to make a direct hit on a helicopter, the RPG could detonate near the tail rotor, the helo's Achilles' heel.†   (source)
  • It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.†   (source)
  • Percy felt like an arrow had slipped through a chink in his armor—as if he still had the blessing of Achilles, and someone had found his weak spot.†   (source)
  • "Achilles," Stheno said cheerfully.†   (source)
  • You bear the curse of Achilles.†   (source)
  • Achilles lowered his head.†   (source)
  • I remember Achilles.†   (source)
  • "Achilles," I said.†   (source)
  • In Achilles' Tent It had been a half hour since Mick had stumbled through the gate as it had focused, fallen flat in the low gravity of Luna.†   (source)
  • All those allusions to honor, reputation, and the flame of love, all the metaphors about birds, Achilles and the jewels of Ceylon were fatiguing.†   (source)
  • As for the book, it was Simon's copy of the Iliad, and I had been reading how the fair Briseis was dragged around from tent to tent and Achilles racked up his spear and hung away his mail.†   (source)
  • He must have been to her the perfect man; heroic; handsome;magnanimous; "the great Achilles, whom we knew" — it seems natural to quote Tennyson—and also genial, lovable, simple, and also her husband; and her children's father.†   (source)
  • She told the girl I had been practically a relative to her, she had loved me as much as Arthur, and received me in her own house like kin--all joy and happy reunion, she was, embracing me by the shoulders to say how fine and handsome I had become, but then my complexion had always been the envy of girls (as if I had been Achilles among the maidens, in the office and poolroom).†   (source)
  • This great mad figure with his broad shoulders and very clean cut mouth, and the deep voice and the powerful face—and the very blue eyes—this mad man would recite poetry to us; "The Burial of Sir John Moore", I remember; and he always brings to mind some tormented bull; and also Achilles—Achilles on his pressed bed lolling roars out a deep applause.†   (source)
  • When they reached the Achilles Statue she turned round.†   (source)
  • Then he proposed to me in broad daylight this morning, in front of that dreadful statue of Achilles.†   (source)
  • Achilles appears in the Illiad, by Homer.†   (source)
  • One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the river Stynx until he became intolerable.†   (source)
  • In the meanwhile, he looked upon Athos as an Achilles, Porthos as an Ajax, and Aramis as a Joseph.†   (source)
  • "Everyone has his Achilles' heel," continued Prince Andrew.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 29 "The assembly seated, rising o'er the rest, Achilles thus the king of men addressed."†   (source)
  • Achilles did not declare himself until they gave him the sword.†   (source)
  • They both, Svidrigailov and Achilles, stared at each other for a few minutes without speaking.†   (source)
  • Were not Achilles and Ajax both in love with their servant maids?†   (source)
  • ANOTHER: If none can furnish to my gaster wherewith to make a pint of chyle, I shall retire to my tent—like Achilles!†   (source)
  • I have read two books of the Iliad, besides being pretty familiar with passages such as the speech of Phoenix in the ninth book, the fight of Hector and Ajax in the fourteenth, the appearance of Achilles unarmed and his heavenly armour in the eighteenth, and the funeral games in the twenty-third.†   (source)
  • Dick got up to Zurich on less Achilles' heels than would be required to equip a centipede, but with plenty—the illusions of eternal strength and health, and of the essential goodness of people; illusions of a nation, the lies of generations of frontier mothers who had to croon falsely, that there were no wolves outside the cabin door.†   (source)
  • Something less unpleasingly oracular he tried to extract; but the old sea-Chiron, thinking perhaps that for the nonce he had sufficiently instructed his young Achilles, pursed his lips, gathered all his wrinkles together and would commit himself to nothing further.†   (source)
  • He hymned the old unhappy wars in which he had been Achilles and the mellifluous Nestor, yet gone his righteous ways unheeded by the cruel kings….†   (source)
  • With the same marvellous patience, and with the same single shark's tooth, of his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles's shield; and full of barbaric spirit and suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert Durer.†   (source)
  • Speaking generally, the carriage-makers of Rome built for the games almost solely, sacrificing safety to beauty, and durability to grace; while the chariots of Achilles and "the king of men," designed for war and all its extreme tests, still ruled the tastes of those who met and struggled for the crowns Isthmian and Olympic.†   (source)
  • Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus.†   (source)
  • Achilles raised his eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Now, as it was an equinus, it was necessary to cut the tendon of Achilles, and, if need were, the anterior tibial muscle could be seen to afterwards for getting rid of the varus; for the doctor did not dare to risk both operations at once; he was even trembling already for fear of injuring some important region that he did not know.†   (source)
  • To have taken the field openly against his rival would have been madness; for he was not a man to be thwarted in his amours, any more than that stormy lover, Achilles.†   (source)
  • The drilling-lessons were always protracted by episodes of warlike narrative, much more interesting to Tom than Philip's stories out of the Iliad; for there were no cannon in the Iliad, and besides, Tom had felt some disgust on learning that Hector and Achilles might possibly never have existed.†   (source)
  • But my endeavours on this head were by no means uniformly successful, even when my plans were the most wittily concocted; for my namesake had much about him, in character, of that unassuming and quiet austerity which, while enjoying the poignancy of its own jokes, has no heel of Achilles in itself, and absolutely refuses to be laughed at.†   (source)
  • Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances?†   (source)
  • Aurora[117] forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old, Achilles[118] is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him.†   (source)
  • Henchard himself was mentally and physically unfit for grubbing subtleties from soiled paper; he had in a modern sense received the education of Achilles, and found penmanship a tantalizing art.†   (source)
  • As to nerves, Mr Merdle is of a cool temperament, and not a sensitive man: is about as invulnerable, I should say, as Achilles.†   (source)
  • Erect upon the rock, angry and threatening, Otto Liedenbrock was a rather grotesque fierce parody upon the fierce Achilles defying the lightning.†   (source)
  • THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.†   (source)
  • The poets related that stone walls, and iron swords, and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners; that the belt which Ajax gave Hector[122] dragged the Trojan hero over the field at the wheels of the car of Achilles, and the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell.†   (source)
  • The absurd answer (that Achilles could never overtake the tortoise) resulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discontinuous elements, whereas the motion both of Achilles and of the tortoise was continuous.†   (source)
  • "You are laughing at me, and want to try me!" said d'Artagnan, whom anger began to take by the hair, as Minerva takes Achilles, in the ILLIAD.†   (source)
  • Some priest who could pronounce the Greek itself taught him to read his verse in the Testament in his native parish far away; and now I must translate to him, while he holds the book, Achilles' reproof to Patroclus for his sad countenance.†   (source)
  • "You can't do it here, it's not the place," cried Achilles, rousing himself, his eyes growing bigger and bigger.†   (source)
  • This low abject brood, That fix their seats in mediocrity, Become your servile minds; but we advance Such virtues only as admit excess, Brave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence, All-seeing prudence, magnanimity That knows no bound, and that heroic virtue For which antiquity hath left no name, But patterns only, such as Hercules, Achilles, Theseus.†   (source)
  • Example: The selfishness of Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, occasioned a thousand woes to the Greeks—muri Achaiois alge etheke—(Hom.†   (source)
  • There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise.†   (source)
  • At last it struck Achilles as irregular for a man not drunk to be standing three steps from him, staring and not saying a word.†   (source)
  • By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahead of him: when Achilles has covered that tenth, the tortoise has covered another one hundredth, and so on forever.†   (source)
  • The arch and the Achilles statue were up since he had last been in Piccadilly; a hundred changes had occurred which his eye and mind vaguely noted.†   (source)
  • And the carriage drove on, taking the road down Piccadilly, where Apsley House and St. George's Hospital wore red jackets still; where there were oil-lamps; where Achilles was not yet born; nor the Pimlico arch raised; nor the hideous equestrian monster which pervades it and the neighbourhood; and so they drove down by Brompton to a certain chapel near the Fulham Road there.†   (source)
  • At the great closed gates of the house, a little man stood with his shoulder leaning against them, wrapped in a grey soldier's coat, with a copper Achilles helmet on his head.†   (source)
  • There are some splendid tailors' shops in the High Street of Southampton, in the fine plate-glass windows of which hang gorgeous waistcoats of all sorts, of silk and velvet, and gold and crimson, and pictures of the last new fashions, in which those wonderful gentlemen with quizzing glasses, and holding on to little boys with the exceeding large eyes and curly hair, ogle ladies in riding habits prancing by the Statue of Achilles at Apsley House.†   (source)
  • Had Achilles any thought of death and danger?†   (source)
  • Some translate "wrath" to connote its archaic severity, and Robert Graves carried this logic to the end in titling his translation "The Wrath of Achilles.†   (source)
  • This has been figuratively taught to princes by ancient writers, who describe how Achilles and many other princes of old were given to the Centaur Chiron to nurse, who brought them up in his discipline; which means solely that, as they had for a teacher one who was half beast and half man, so it is necessary for a prince to know how to make use of both natures, and that one without the other is not durable.†   (source)
  • …prince should read histories, and study there the actions of illustrious men, to see how they have borne themselves in war, to examine the causes of their victories and defeat, so as to avoid the latter and imitate the former; and above all do as an illustrious man did, who took as an exemplar one who had been praised and famous before him, and whose achievements and deeds he always kept in his mind, as it is said Alexander the Great imitated Achilles, Caesar Alexander, Scipio Cyrus.†   (source)
  • Most mythological dictionaries and classical reference works today follow the convention of transliterating the Greek proper names into the Latin alphabet ("Akhilleus' becomes "Achilles," "Odysseus" becomes "Ulysses," "Herakles" is "Hercules").†   (source)
  • The "Anger of Achilles" became The Iliad because it suggests, despite its focus on a single episode in Akhilleus' meteoric life, the utter devastation of the Trojan War and gives it meaning through the eyes of its hero.†   (source)
  • The other work is the "Anger of Achilles," which is how the poem titles itself in its first line; this was a long, orally performed song of ancient heroes, one of many that had been sung in Greece and the Near East since time immemorial.†   (source)
  • Hence when Homer chose to sing the "Anger of Achilles," his theme had a symbolic resonance that songs of Thebes or Herakles did not: the first Greek epic written down told a story of a great and ultimately successful collective effort to vindicate the honor of Greece against a powerful eastern foe.†   (source)
  • We cannot be sure why, out of all these songs, the "Anger of Achilles" was selected to be written down and handed on to posterity; it appears not to aspire to be the song of Troy, for its story is restricted to a few weeks toward the end of that very long war, and not even the final weeks at that.†   (source)
  • The Iliad and the Anger of Achilles The Iliad is both a landmark in the history of literature and a relic of its prehistory, so that to read it today is to encounter two masterpieces of ancient narrative at once.†   (source)
  • It is clear from the above that a. main part of Homer's design has been to tell a massive tale, to expand his main theme, throwing up unexpected diversions, obstacles, and side-stories until his account of the "Anger of Achilles" takes on all the weight and scope and dense detail that the word "epic" connotes.†   (source)
  • They had grouped around Achilles' ghost, and now†   (source)
  • The princess
    he was sending on to the son of great Achilles,
    breaker of armies.†   (source)
  • Achilles' ghost was first to greet him: "Agamemnon,†   (source)
  • Your white bones rest in that, my brilliant Achilles,†   (source)
  • I There lies Achilles too.†   (source)
  • You were fated to die a wretched death."
    And the ghost of Atrides Agamemnon answered,
    "Son of Peleus, great godlike Achilles!†   (source)
  • …world more blest than you—
    there never has been, never will be one.
    Time was, when you were alive, we Argives
    honored you as a god, and now down here, I see,
    you lord it over the dead in all your power.
    So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.'
    I reassured the ghost, but he broke out, protesting,
    'No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!
    By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man—
    some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—
    than rule down…†   (source)
  • …me that?
    I know nothing, whether he's dead or alive.
    It's wrong to lead you on with idle words.'
    So we stood there, trading heartsick stories,
    deep in grief, as the tears streamed down our faces.
    But now there came the ghosts of Peleus' son Achilles,
    Patroclus, fearless Antilochus—and Great Ajax too,
    the first in stature, first in build and bearing
    of all the Argives after Peleus' matchless son.
    The ghost of the splendid runner knew me at once
    and hailed me with a flight of…†   (source)
  • …in death, not once to forget that rage
    you train on me for those accursed arms?
    The gods set up that prize to plague the Achaeans-
    so great a tower of strength we lost when you went down!
    For your death we grieved as we did for Achilles' death—
    we grieved incessantly, true, and none's to blame
    but Zeus, who hated Achaea's fighting spearmen
    so intensely, Zeus sealed your doom.
    Come closer, king, and listen to my story.
    Conquer your rage, your blazing, headstrong…†   (source)
  • Would to god
    I'd died there too and met my fate that day the Trojans,
    swarms of them, hurled at me with bronze spears,
    fighting over the corpse of proud Achilles!
    A hero's funeral then, my glory spread by comrades—
    now what a wretched death I'm doomed to die!"
    At that a massive wave came crashing down on his head,
    a terrific onslaught spinning his craft round and round—
    he was thrown clear of the decks—
    the steering-oar wrenched
    from his grasp—
    and in one lightning attack…†   (source)
  • …cortege of Argive heroes
    paraded in review, in battle armor round your blazing pyre,
    men in chariots, men on foot—a resounding roar went up.
    And once the god of fire had burned your corpse to ash,
    at first light we gathered your white bones, Achilles,
    cured them in strong neat wine and seasoned oils.
    Your mother gave us a gold two-handled urn,
    a gift from Dionysus, she said,
    a masterwork of the famous Smith, the god of fire.
    Your white bones rest in that, my brilliant…†   (source)
  • …asking about the grief that touched him most.
    Only the ghost of Great Ajax, son of Telamon,
    kept his distance, blazing with anger at me still
    for the victory I had won by the ships that time
    I pressed my claim for the arms of Prince Achilles.
    His queenly mother had set them up as prizes,
    Pallas and captive Trojans served as judges.
    Would to god I'd never won such trophies!
    All for them the earth closed over Ajax,
    that proud hero Ajax ….
    greatest in build, greatest in works…†   (source)
  • Sons of Achaea, don't run now!
    This is Achilles' mother rising from the sea
    with all her immortal sea-nymphs-
    she longs to join her son who died in battle!'
    That stopped our panicked forces in their tracks
    as the Old Man of the Sea's daughters gathered round you—
    wailing, heartsick—dressed you in ambrosial, deathless robes
    and the Muses, nine in all, voice-to-voice in choirs,
    their vibrant music rising, raised your dirge.
    Not one soldier would you have seen dry-eyed,
    the…†   (source)
  • —
    where the senseless, burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home.'
    The voice of his spirit paused, and I was quick to answer:
    'Achilles, son of Peleus, greatest of the Achaeans,
    I had to consult Tiresias, driven here by hopes
    he would help me journey home to rocky Ithaca.
    Never yet have I neared Achaea, never once
    set foot on native ground ….
    my life is endless trouble.
    But you, Achilles,
    there's not a man in the world more blest than you—
    there never has been, never will…†   (source)
  • …things that lay at hand
    and when they'd put aside desire for food and drink,
    the Muse inspired the bard
    to sing the famous deeds of fighting heroes-

    the song whose fame had reached the skies those days:
    The Strife Between Odysseus and Achilles, Peleus' Son ….
    how once at the gods' lavish feast the captains clashed
    in a savage war of words, while Agamemnon, lord of armies,
    rejoiced at heart that Achaea's bravest men were battling so.
    For this was the victory sign that Apollo…†   (source)
  • …Peleus, greatest of the Achaeans,
    I had to consult Tiresias, driven here by hopes
    he would help me journey home to rocky Ithaca.
    Never yet have I neared Achaea, never once
    set foot on native ground ….
    my life is endless trouble.
    But you, Achilles,
    there's not a man in the world more blest than you—
    there never has been, never will be one.
    Time was, when you were alive, we Argives
    honored you as a god, and now down here, I see,
    you lord it over the dead in all your power.
    So…†   (source)
  • You were dear to the gods,
    so even in death your name will never die ….
    Great glory is yours, Achilles,
    for all time, in the eyes of all mankind!
    But I?
    What joy for me when the coil of war had wound down?
    For my return Zeus hatched a pitiful death
    at the hands of Aegisthus—and my accursed wife."
    As they exchanged the stories of their fates,
    Hermes the guide and giant-killer drew up close to both,
    leading down the ghosts of the suitors King Odysseus killed.
    Struck by the…†   (source)
  • …lives and who went down.
    But still, all I've gathered by hearsay, sitting here
    in my own house—that you'll learn, it's only right,
    I'll hide nothing now.
    They say the Myrmidons,
    those savage spearmen led by the shining son
    of lionhearted Achilles, traveled home unharmed.
    Philoctetes the gallant son of Poias, safe as well.
    Idomeneus brought his whole contingent back to Crete,
    all who'd escaped the war—the sea snatched none from him.
    But Atreus' son Agamemnon …. you yourselves,…†   (source)
  • …past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
    the Land of Dreams, and they soon reached the fields of asphodel
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    where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals, make their home.
    There they found the ghosts of Peleus' son Achilles,
    Patroclus, fearless Antilochus—and Great Ajax too,
    the first in stature, first in build and bearing
    of all the Argives after Peleus' matchless son.
    They had grouped around Achilles' ghost, and now
    the shade of Atreus' son Agamemnon…†   (source)
  • The most vulnerable point too of tender Achilles.†   (source)
  • Brummagem England was toppling already and her downfall would be Ireland, her Achilles heel, which he explained to them about the vulnerable point of Achilles, the Greek hero, a point his auditors at once seized as he completely gripped their attention by showing the tendon referred to on his boot.†   (source)
  • So saying he skipped around, nimbly considering, frankly at the same time apologetic to get on his companion's right, a habit of his, by the bye, his right side being, in classical idiom, his tender Achilles.†   (source)
  • Here he ponders things that were not: what Caesar would have lived to do had he believed the soothsayer: what might have been: possibilities of the possible as possible: things not known: what name Achilles bore when he lived among women.†   (source)
  • The Wallabout Martyrs Greater than memory of Achilles or Ulysses, More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander, Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones, Once living men—once resolute courage, aspiration, strength, The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.†   (source)
  • [II] Had I the Choice Had I the choice to tally greatest bards, To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will, Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax, Or Shakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello—Tennyson's fair ladies, Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers; These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter, Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer, Or breathe one breath…†   (source)
  • 2 Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia, Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts, That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and AEneas', Odysseus' wanderings, Placard "Removed" and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus, Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah, The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections, For know a better, fresher, busier sphere, a wide, untried domain awaits,…†   (source)
  • Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in arms.†   (source)
  • Thrice round the Trojan walls Achilles drew The corpse of Hector, whom in fight he slew.†   (source)
  • There Agamemnon, Priam here, he spies, And fierce Achilles, who both kings defies.†   (source)
  • This new Achilles, let him take the field, With fated armor, and Vulcanian shield!†   (source)
  • * *doubt In starres many a winter therebeforn Was writ the death of Hector, Achilles, Of Pompey, Julius, ere they were born; The strife of Thebes; and of Hercules, Of Samson, Turnus, and of Socrates The death; but mennes wittes be so dull, That no wight can well read it at the full.†   (source)
  • Or young Achilles, by his rival slain?†   (source)
  • See Helen, for whom so long a time of ill revolved; and see the great Achilles, who at the end fought with love.†   (source)
  • Thus the poet sweetly sings of Troy— _—Captique dolis lachrymisque coacti Quos neque Tydides, nec Larissaeus Achilles, Non anni domuere decem, non mille Carinae.†   (source)
  • …distance and distaste, Anger and just rebuke, and judgement given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery Death's harbinger: Sad task! yet argument Not less but more heroick than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy wall; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespous'd; Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplexed the Greek, and Cytherea's son: If answerable style I can obtain Of my celestial patroness,…†   (source)
  • For by all that is good it is as true as that it is daylight now; and if it be a lie, it must be a lie too that there was a Hector, or Achilles, or Trojan war, or Twelve Peers of France, or Arthur of England, who still lives changed into a raven, and is unceasingly looked for in his kingdom.†   (source)
  • <18> Lo here, Andromache, Hectore's wife, <19> That day that Hector shoulde lose his life, She dreamed on the same night beforn, How that the life of Hector should be lorn,* *lost If thilke day he went into battaile; She warned him, but it might not avail; He wente forth to fighte natheless, And was y-slain anon of Achilles.†   (source)
  • He can set forth the craftiness of Ulysses, the piety of AEneas, the valour of Achilles, the misfortunes of Hector, the treachery of Sinon, the friendship of Euryalus, the generosity of Alexander, the boldness of Caesar, the clemency and truth of Trajan, the fidelity of Zopyrus, the wisdom of Cato, and in short all the faculties that serve to make an illustrious man perfect, now uniting them in one individual, again distributing them among many; and if this be done with charm of style…†   (source)
  • Within it they lament for the artifice whereby the dead Deidamia still mourns for Achilles, and there for the Palladium they bear the penalty.†   (source)
  • Thus do I hear[1] that the lance of Achilles and of his father was wont to be cause first of a sad and then of a good gift.†   (source)
  • And other folk have wonder'd on the swerd,* *sword That woulde pierce throughout every thing; And fell in speech of Telephus the king, And of Achilles for his quainte spear, <17> For he could with it bothe heal and dere,* *wound Right in such wise as men may with the swerd Of which right now ye have yourselves heard.†   (source)
  • Deidamia was the wife of Achilles, who slew herself for grief at his desertion and departure for Troy, which had been brought about by the deceit of Ulysses and Diomed.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare too had heard of it, and applies it, precisely as Dante does, to one Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the charge to kill and cure.†   (source)
  • Commanded on Achilles' tomb to die, Not forc'd, like us, to hard captivity, Or in a haughty master's arms to lie.†   (source)
  • Then he touched me, and said, "That is Nessus, who died for the beautiful Dejanira, and he himself wrought vengeance for himself; and that one in the middle, who is gazing on his breast, is the great Chiron who nurtured Achilles.†   (source)
  • Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there: A new Achilles shall in arms appear, And he, too, goddess-born.†   (source)
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