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Achilles, The hero of Homer's Iliad. "According to some, his mother renders him invulnerable by dipping him in the river Styx; but his heel, by which she held him, was not immersed, and here he received his death wound from an arrow." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. I (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 87.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. I (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 510. (Heroes of the Trojan War. [Menelaüs, Paris, Diomedes, Odisseus, Nestor, Achilles, Agamemnon.])
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