All 4 Uses of
Achilles
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- 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.
Chpt 9Achilles = mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; central character and foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy
- 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.
Chpt 16
- The most vulnerable point too of tender Achilles.
Chpt 16
- 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.
Chpt 16 *
Definitions:
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(Achilles in Greek mythology) mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; central character and foremost Greek warrior at the siege of TroyAchilles was seen as semi-divine. His mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river when he was a baby, but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his "Achilles' heel."
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Achilles is also used as a shortened way to identify an achilles tendon or heel cord at the back of the lower leg.