being

Achilles

Beings

The swift Achaean champion of the Iliad, heel and wrath. Not Odysseus as the craft twin alone, and not shield-of-achilles as gear alone.

Also known as Akhilleus

Hellenic religion

  • Achilles appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names Achilles among hero cult, race, and relic speech in Greek cities (Sparta neighbors and kin). A named Achilles in that periegesis, not the Iliad battlefield alone and not spear/armor objects already walked.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

Roman religion

  • Achilles appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid seats Achilles in Carthage temple pictures, Trojan memory, and underworld speech among the war-dead. Named Achaean hero inside Roman epic reception, not a fresh Iliad publish.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources