Achilles’ heel

• Achilles Heel is an everyday idiomatic expression that means any weak spot that can bring down an individual.

In Greek Mythology

• In Greek Mythology, to make Achilles invulnerable, his mother Thetis, dipped her son into the magic waters of the River Styx, holding him by his heel.
• This was the only part of Achilles that made him vulnerable.

The Fall of Troy

• The story of the Fall of Troy is told by Homer in the Iliad.
• After Achilles kills Hector, Homer ends the story at Chapter 24 with Achilles still alive.
• However, in later works it was claimed that Paris killed Achilles, by firing an arrow into his heel.

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