Achilles

Achilles was a Greek soldier who lived a long time ago. He had a gang of men called Marmodons who fought with him. He was a big character in the Odyssey and Iliad by Homer, but he isnt in any other Greek plays, because he wasn't a king.

In Greek mythology, when Achilles was born, his mother held him by the heel and dipped him into the river Styx to give him invulnerability. Every part of his body touched by the river became invulnerable except the places where she was holding him; thus he could only be killed by a wound to his heel. Paris killed him with a poisoned arrow which hit him in the heel. This myth has given rise both to the expression "Achilles' heel" to mean a weak or vulnerable spot, and the name "Achilles' tendon" for the large tendon which joins the calf muscle to the heel bone.