Achilles is a demi-god hero famed for his role in the Trojan War as both a peerless warrior and as the leader of his tribe, the Myrmidons. He was dipped in the Styx by his mother as a child to grant him immortality but was left vulnerable on the heel by which Thetis held him. After he was fatally wounded when Paris shot his heel with an arrow, he descended to the Underworld as a Shade, where he was eventually hired by Hades to train a young Zagreus in battle and military discipline in...
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