In Greek mythology, Achilles (/əˈkɪliːz/ ə-KIL-eez) or Achilleus (Ancient Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς, romanized: Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known...

and was the eighth highest-grossing film of 2004. In 1184 BC, King Agamemnon unites the Greek kingdoms. Achilles, a heroic warrior, fights for Agamemnon...

Achilles and the Tortoise (アキレスと亀, Akiresu to Kame) is a 2008 Japanese film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano. The film is the third and final...

The Song of Achilles is a 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is a retelling of the Trojan War as told from...

Fury of Achilles, is a 1962 Italian historical drama set in the ninth year of the Trojan War and is based primarily on Homer's Iliad. The film was directed...

The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is a key element of the stories associated with the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer describes a deep and...

Greek hero Achilles Achilles de Flandres, a villain in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game novel series Achilles, Phoebus' horse in the animated film The Hunchback...

Tortoise Said to Achilles" by Lewis Carroll Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Achilles and the Tortoise (film), a Japanese film starring Takeshi...

Achilles tendon rupture is when the Achilles tendon, at the back of the ankle, breaks. Symptoms include the sudden onset of sharp pain in the heel. A snapping...

daughter, Iphigenia, alone to Aulis, supposedly to marry Achilles (Panos Mihalopoulos). Achilles, the leader of the Myrmidon army, is part of Agamemnon's...

Iliad. Her role as a status symbol is at the heart of the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that initiates the plot of Homer's epic. She was married...

The Innocents is a 1961 gothic psychological horror film directed and produced by Jack Clayton, and starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins...

epic and Eastwood's film, namely that Achilles is fated to die in battle, whereas Munny moves to California at the end of the film to become a businessman...

HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser, the second of five in the class. She served in the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Second World War. She...

Metermaid. A film was made about his life and work, called Yield to Total Elation: The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli. Web site for the film Yield to Total...

opera The Bold and the Beautiful and appeared in the 2023 American comedy film No Hard Feelings. Achileas-Andreas was born on 12 August 2000 at Weill Cornell...

and seizes Achilles' prize, the beautiful captive Briseis. This creates deadly resentment between Achilles and Agamemnon, causing Achilles to withdraw...

Koslo. Co-written by science-fiction author Joe Haldeman, the film's plot follows Achilles, one of the "robot jox" who pilot giant machines that fight international...

Enter Achilles is a performance created by the dance and theatre company DV8 Physical Theatre and directed by Lloyd Newson. First performed on 7 June 1995...

Greek warriors. He is ultimately killed in single combat by the Greek hero Achilles, who later drags his dead body around the city of Troy behind his chariot...

Describing the impact filming had on his body, Crowe said, "I've still got a lot of little scar[s]". He added, "I've had Achilles tendons go out, knees...

the Ancient Greece-based film 300 (2006), in which he played the Captain, and Troy (2004), where he played Eudorus, Achilles' second in command, and played...

Thetis in the Wolfgang Petersen film Troy. In 2011, American novelist Madeline Miller portrayed Thetis in The Song of Achilles as a harsh and remote deity...

depicts a fierce quarrel between King Agamemnon and a celebrated warrior, Achilles. It is a central part of the Epic Cycle. The Iliad is often regarded as...

Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of...

The Achilles Club is a track and field club formed in 1920 by and for the past and present representatives of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Members...

an ancient palace of mythical Phaeacia. The motif centers on the hero Achilles of Greek mythology, from which the name is derived. Corfu was Elisabeth's...

death; Achilles takes up the challenge and kills Hector. To try to save Paris, Helen attempts to surrender to Agamemnon, but Paris intervenes. Achilles charges...

and massacres the crew of the Achilles, the ship carrying the Stargate to the United States. The captain of the Achilles lives long enough to drop the...

Pyrrhus Killing Priam by Franz Cleyn Achilles and Priam, in conversation outside of Troy by Lucas Vorsterman II In film Helen of Troy - played by Cedric Hardwicke...