All 5 Uses of
Achilles
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- 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.
Chpt 6.6Achilles = mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; central character and foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy
- They both, Svidrigailov and Achilles, stared at each other for a few minutes without speaking.
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- 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.
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- Achilles raised his eyebrows.
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- "You can't do it here, it's not the place," cried Achilles, rousing himself, his eyes growing bigger and bigger.
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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.