All 23 Uses of
Achilles
in
Circe
- Like having Achilles to run your errands.
p. 210.7Achilles = mythical Greek hero of the Iliad
- His voice rolled like a bard's: Achilles, prince of Phthia, swiftest of all the Greeks, best of the Achaian warriors at Troy.
p. 210.8
- Achilles went mad when he died; nearly mad, anyway.
p. 211.4
- When Achilles puts on his helmet and cleaves his red path through the field, the hearts of common men swell in their chests.
p. 212.9
- They think of the stories that will be told, and they long to be in them. I fought beside Achilles.
p. 212.9 *
- After Achilles died, Agamemnon named me Best of the Greeks.
p. 213.3
- He would gather my weaknesses up and set them with the rest of his collection, alongside Achilles' and Ajax's.
p. 215.6
- 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.
p. 216.7
- For entertainment, Odysseus told them heroic stories of Achilles, Ajax, Diomedes, making them live again in the twilight air and perform their glorious deeds.
p. 223.7
- Ajax could barely hold against him, and only Achilles could have beaten him.
p. 223.9
- Achilles killed Hector, and after, when Achilles' son, Pyrrhus, stormed the palace, he took the child Astyanax and smashed open his head.
p. 224.5
- Achilles killed Hector, and after, when Achilles' son, Pyrrhus, stormed the palace, he took the child Astyanax and smashed open his head.
p. 224.5
- Achilles and Patroclus, Ajax, Hector.
p. 232.4
- When he was gone, would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover Patroclus?
p. 233.9
- I saw Achilles and Patroclus, and Ajax bearing the wound he gave himself.
p. 235.3
- Had not Odysseus once told me a story about Achilles' sea-nymph mother, who had found a way to bargain with Zeus?
p. 246.3
- When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?
p. 272.9
- His speed was second only to Achilles'.
p. 290.7
- The Best of the Greeks after Achilles, wielding his bow once more.
p. 301.4
- 'Do you know,' he said, 'that Achilles went to war at seventeen?'
p. 305.8
- 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.
p. 319.9
- 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.
p. 321.7
- But Achilles reproached him.
p. 321.8
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) 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.