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Achilles is the name of the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ... For other uses, see Achilles (disambiguation). ...

Achilles may also refer to:

• Achilles (play), a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus

'Bold text'ACHILLES=FATTEST PERSON EVER" Achilles is a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus. ...

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

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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)

Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancratius are four Roman saints, the commemoration of whom is made by the Roman Catholic Church on 12 May, in common, and all four are named in the Proper of the Mass as martyrs. ... Saint Achilleus Kewanuka (died June 3, 1886) was a Ugandan Roman Catholic revered as a saint in his church. ...

Music

• Achilles Last Stand, a song by Led Zeppelin off their 1976 album Presence

Audio sample Info (help· info) Achilles Last Stand [1] is a song by English rock group Led Zeppelin, featured as the opening track on their 1976 album Presence. ... For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... Presence is the seventh studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin, released by Swan Song Records on March 31, 1976. ...

Places

• Achilles, Kansas, a ghost town in Rawlins County, Kansas, USA
• Achilles Point, a headland in Auckland, New Zealand

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Other

• Achilles is a male meerkat featured in Meerkat Manor

Meerkat Manor is a British television show made by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International. ...

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.

Achilles Tatius (in Greek Aχιλλευς Τατιος) was a Roman era Greek writer whose fame is attached to his only surviving work, the erotic romance The Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon. ... Russian composer Achilles Nikolaevich Alferaki © TaganrogCity. ... Achilles de Flandres is a character in Orson Scott Cards Shadow series, part of the universe created in the novel and short story Enders Game. ... Pieces of broken pottery as voting tokens. ... // Overview Events 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men 212-216: Baths of Caracalla 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire 250-538: Kofun era, the first... Chris Achilleos (born 1947) is a painter and illustrator . ...

See also

• Achille (disambiguation)

References

1. ^ Ptolem. Heph. vi. p. 333
2. ^ 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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