Achilles and the Neared Cymothoe: Attic red-figure kantharos from Volci (Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris)
In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: Akhilleus, pronounced was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.
Later legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel. As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.
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