What is the name of the book in Greek Mythology about Achilles.?
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the Iliad by Homer-thats aslo what the movie "Troy" is based on.
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It's the Achilles tendon - the one that runs down the back of your ankle.  \nAccording to legend this was the only part of him that the water didn't touch because he was being held by the ankle, and therefore became the only part of him that could be harmed.  \nHe was killed by an arrow that hit him in the heel.  That's also where the saying 'Achilles heel' meaning a weakness comes from.
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myths and the minotaur
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Oh! I love that story. We read it last semester. Have you read the story? It's really funny to read it and then think in the gutters. Our sub, Scott, taught us that. lol Anyway... okay... hm... thesis statement. \n\n"There are stories about fish and the like, but none quite like this. The boy in the story learns to grow after learning that his beloved Sheila is not what he thought she was. In the story the boy struggling with what he loves and what he thinks he is in love with. ([The story teaches about letting go, forgetting and growing up] <-- thesis)." \n\nOkay, to clarify the thesis:\n\nLetting go: Letting go of the fish and moving on.\nForgetting: He forgets that he can't very well catch a fish without her seeing, so he loses it. \nGrowing up: After he learns that Sheila Mant is not what he thought she but, but in fact a skany who9re (lol) he learns to move on and grow up. \n\nI hope this helped.
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eno of Elea (circa 450 b.c.) is credited with creating several famous paradoxes, but by far the best known is the paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles. (Achilles was the great Greek hero of Homer's The Illiad.) It has inspired many writers and thinkers through the ages, notably Lewis Carroll and Douglas Hofstadter, who also wrote dialogues involving the Tortoise and Achilles.\nThe original goes something like this:\n\n    The Tortoise challenged Achilles to a race, claiming that he would win as long as Achilles gave him a small head start. Achilles laughed at this, for of course he was a mighty warrior and swift of foot, whereas the Tortoise was heavy and slow.\n    “How big a head start do you need?” he asked the Tortoise with a smile.\n    “Ten meters,” the latter replied.\n    Achilles laughed louder than ever. “You will surely lose, my friend, in that case,” he told the Tortoise, “but let us race, if you wish it.”\n    “On the contrary,” said the Tortoise, “I will win, and I can prove it to you by a simple argument.”\n    “Go on then,” Achilles replied, with less confidence than he felt before. He knew he was the superior athlete, but he also knew the Tortoise had the sharper wits, and he had lost many a bewildering argument with him before this.\n    “Suppose,” began the Tortoise, “that you give me a 10-meter head start. Would you say that you could cover that 10 meters between us very quickly?”\n    “Very quickly,” Achilles affirmed.\n    “And in that time, how far should I have gone, do you think?”\n    “Perhaps a meter – no more,” said Achilles after a moment's thought.\n    “Very well,” replied the Tortoise, “so now there is a meter between us. And you would catch up that distance very quickly?”\n    “Very quickly indeed!”\n    “And yet, in that time I shall have gone a little way farther, so that now you must catch that distance up, yes?”\n\n    “Ye-es,” said Achilles slowly.\n    “And while you are doing so, I shall have gone a little way farther, so that you must then catch up the new distance,” the Tortoise continued smoothly.\n    Achilles said nothing.\n    “And so you see, in each moment you must be catching up the distance between us, and yet I – at the same time – will be adding a new distance, however small, for you to catch up again.”\n    “Indeed, it must be so,” said Achilles wearily.\n    “And so you can never catch up,” the Tortoise concluded sympathetically.\n    “You are right, as always,” said Achilles sadly – and conceded the race.\n\nZeno's Paradox may be rephrased as follows. Suppose I wish to cross the room. First, of course, I must cover half the distance. Then, I must cover half the remaining distance. Then, I must cover half the remaining distance. Then I must cover half the remaining distance . . . and so on forever. The consequence is that I can never get to the other side of the room.\nWhat this actually does is to make all motion impossible, for before I can cover half the distance I must cover half of half the distance, and before I can do that I must cover half of half of half of the distance, and so on, so that in reality I can never move any distance at all, because doing so involves moving an infinite number of small intermediate distances first.\nNow, since motion obviously is possible, the question arises, what is wrong with Zeno? What is the "flaw in the logic?" If you are giving the matter your full attention, it should begin to make you squirm a bit, for on its face the logic of the situation seems unassailable. You shouldn't be able to cross the room, and the Tortoise should win the race! Yet we know better. Hmm.\nRather than tackle Zeno head-on, let us pause to notice something remarkable. Suppose we take Zeno's Paradox at face value for the moment, and agree with him that before I can walk a mile I must first walk a half-mile. And before I can walk the
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It has alot of cool mythological stories in it.  The battle of Troy, when Paris and Helen fell in love then the Trojan Horse,  Achilles getting shot in the the back of the leg and dying, the Sirens, the Cyclops, lots of other monsters and creatures as well.  There may be a cliff notes version I'm not sure.  But it is an awesome book.
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which Pericles are you talking about? The play by Shakespeare or Pericles (ca. 495 BC-429 BC, Greek : Περικλῆς) was an influential and important leader of Athens?\n\nhere's the link to the info anyway.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles%2C_Prince_of_Tyre\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles
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Homer was a male. But he was not a god. He was a poet. Read Greek history and you'll find out all about him.
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Odysseus , Lat. Ulysses [yOOlis'ēz] , in Greek mythology, son and successor of King Laertes of Ithaca. A leader of Greek forces during the Trojan War, Odysseus was noted (as in the Iliad) for his cunning strategy and his wise counsel. He is the central figure of the Odyssey, which tells of his adventures after the fall of Troy. In post-Homeric legend, however, he was pictured as a wily, lying, and evil man. He avoided service in the Trojan War by feigning madness—until exposed by Palamedes, whom he later treacherously caused to be executed.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses\n\nIf you only read one, read that one, as you will learn the greatest amount from it. Practically all major Greco-Roman myths play a part in it and it is wonderfully written.
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Crete. (Greek mythology)
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WOW I'm learning about odysseus too and what I think is that he would have the same feelings he had when eurylochus(one of his men)said this or something like this:that he had the anger of drawing his sword and cutting his head off and he did not care who was beside him, also he said this"kinsmen or no kinsmen"(which means I think brother)and thats all I remember.
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HERAKLES\n\nMeans "glory of Hera" from the name of the goddess HERA combined with Greek κλεος (kleos) "glory". He was a hero in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene. He completed twelve labours in order to become a god.\n\nLegend has it that Herakles' first name really was Alkaios or Alkeides and only the Pythia in Delphi (a holy female seer) adressed him by the name Herakles for the first time, when he came before her.
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hephaestus.html\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Hephaestus.html\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/gods/Hephaestus.html
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Achilles - as long as Gladiator doesn't take advantage of Achilles' one vulnerability.  Achilles is the hero of the Iliad, after all =)
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Do you mean the King of Ithaca?  As in Homer's Odessey, Odysseus, and the Trojan War?  I've never seen a movie about Odysseus with a character by the name of DIMIDIOCE.  Sorry.
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Edith Hamilton's 'Mythology' is an excellent source for Greco-Roman myths.  It also has some stuff about Norse mythology  It's a good-sized book, too....not just some little picturebook.