Achilles (disambiguation)
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Achilles is the name of the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War.
Achilles may also refer to:
- Achilles (play), a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus
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[edit] Science and technology
- Achilles tendon, a posterior tendon of the leg
- Achilles (1903 Automobile), an obsolete British automobile maker
- 588 Achilles, the first Trojan asteroid to be discovered
- HMS Achilles, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Achilles, warship of the United States Navy
- M10 Achilles, British variant of the M10 Wolverine, a World War II tank destroyer
- Achilles (1873-1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
[edit] Christian Saints
- Saint Achilles, one of the four Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancratius
- Achilles of Larissa (d. 330 AD)
- Achilleus Kewanuka (d. 1886)
[edit] Music
- Achilles Last Stand, a song by Led Zeppelin off their 1976 album Presence
[edit] Places
- Achilles, Kansas, a ghost town in Rawlins County, Kansas, USA
- Achilles Point, a headland in Auckland, New Zealand
[edit] Other
- Achilles is a male meerkat featured in Meerkat Manor
[edit] People with the given name Achilles
- Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, a Roman-era Greek writer.
- Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and statesman.
- Achilles de Flandres, the antagonist in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.
- Achilles, son of Lyson of Athens, who was believed to have first introduced in his native city the mode of sending persons into exile by ostracism.[1] Several other and more credible accounts, however, ascribe this institution with more probability to other persons.[2]
- Achilleus (emperor) was the ruler of Egypt for a very short time in the late 3rd century AD.
- Chris Achilleos, a Greek-Cypriotic/British painter and illustrator.
- Theodore Achilles, American diplomat.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Ptolem. Heph. vi. p. 333
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Achilles (2)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 11
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