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| King name "Achilles" | Greek | The son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones in Phthiotis, in Thessaly, and of the Nereid Thetis. |
| Hero name "Achle" | Etruscan | Legendary hero of the Trojan war, from the Greek Achilles. Etruscan |
| God name "Ambrosia" | Greek | In ancient mythology, Ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods. The word has generally been derived from Greek a- ("not") and mbrotos ("mortal"); hence the food or drink of the immortals. Thetis anointed the infant Achilles with ambrosia and påśśed the child through the fire to make him immortal - a familiar Phoenician custom - but Peleus, appalled, stopped her. |
| King name "Andromache" | Greek | A daughter of Eetion, king of the Cilician Thebae, and one of the noblest and most amiable female characters in the Iliad. Her father and her seven brothers were slain by Achilles at the taking of Thebae, and her mother, who had purchased her freedom by a large ransom, was killed by Artemis. Greek |
"Balius and Xanthus" | Greek | The immortal horses of Achilles. They were sons of Zephyrus and the Harpy Podarge. |
"Briseis" | Greek | A patronymic from Briseus, and the name of Hippodameia, the daughter of Briseus of Lyrnessus, who fell into the hands of Achilles, and about whom the quarrel arose between Achilles and Agamemnon. Greek |
"Chalcon2" | Greek | Of Cyparissus, the shield-bearer of Antilochus. He was in love with the Amazon Penthesileia, but on hastening to her åśśistance he was killed by Achilles, and the Greeks nailed his body to a cross. Greek |
"Cheiron" | Greek | The wisest and justest of all the centaurs. He was the instructor of Achilles, whose father Peleus was a friend and relative of Cheiron, and received at his wedding with Thetis the heavy lance which was subsequently used by Achilles. Greek |
"Deidameia" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Bellerophontes and wife of Evander, by whom she became the mother of Sarpedon. Homer calls her Laodameia. 2. A daughter of Lycomedes in the island of Scyrus. When Achilles was concealed there in maiden's attire, Deidameia became by him the mother of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, and, according to others, of Oneirus also. (Apollodorus iii) 3. The wife of Peirithous, who is commonly called Hippodameia. Greek |
| Goddess name "Demi-Gods" | Greek | The "half-gods", is used to describe mythological figures or heroes such as Hercules, Achilles, Castor and Pollux, etc. Sons of mortals and gods or goddesses, they raised themselves to the standard of gods by their acts of bravery. |
"Diomede" | Greek | A daughter of Phorbaa of Lemnos, was beloved by Achilles. Greek |
"Echeclus" | Greece | A son of Agenor, who was slain by Achilles. A Trojan of the same name occurs in the Iliad. Greece |
"Harpyia" | Greek | That is, "the swift robbers," are, in the Homeric poems, nothing but personified storm winds. Homer mentions only one by name, viz. Podarge, who was married to Zephyrus, and gave birth to the two horses of Achilles, Xanthus and Balius. Greek |
"Ligyron" | Greek | I. e. the whining, is said to have been the original name of Achilles, and to have been changed into Achilles by Cheiron. Greek |
| God name "Menesthius" | Greek | 1. A son of Areithous and Philomedusa, of Arne in Boeotia, was slain at Troy by Paris. 2. A son of the river-god Spercheius or of Borus and Polydora, was one of the commanders of the hosts of Achilles. Greek |
"Nireus" | Greek | 1. A son of Charopus and Aglaia, was, next to Achilles, the handsomest among the Greeks at Troy, but unwarlike. He came from the island of Syme (between Rhodes and Cnidus), and commanded only three ships and a small number of men. According to Diodorus he also ruled over a part of Cnidus, and he is said to have been slain by Eurypylus or Aeneias. His beauty became proverbial. |
| Hero name "Pelias" | Greek | The huge spear of Achilles, which none but the hero could wield; so called because it was cut from an ash growing on Mount Pelion, in Thessaly. Greek |
| Hero name "Pelides" | Greek | Son of Peleus, that is, Achilles, the hero of Homer's Iliad, and chief of the Greek warriors that besieged Troy. |
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