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  2. Achilles - Wikipedia

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    Thetis Dipping the Infant Achilles into the River Styx by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1625; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam) Achilles was the son of Thetis—a Nereid and daughter of the Old Man of the Sea—and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons.

  3. Achilles' heel - Wikipedia

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    An Achilles' heel [1] (or Achilles heel [2] [3]) is a weakness despite overall strength, which can lead to downfall. While the mythological origin refers to a physical vulnerability, idiomatic references to other attributes or qualities that can lead to downfall are common.

  4. Styx - Wikipedia

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    According to the Achilleid, written by the Roman poet Statius in the 1st century AD, when Achilles was born his mother Thetis tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx; however, he was left vulnerable at the part of the body by which she held him: his left heel. [34]

  5. Scamander - Wikipedia

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    Scamander was also said to have attempted to kill Achilles three times, and the hero was only saved due to the intervention of Hera, Athena and Hephaestus. In this context, he is the personification of the Scamander River that flowed from Mount Ida across the plain beneath the city of Troy, joining the Hellespont north of the city.

  6. Simoeis - Wikipedia

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    Water, or the fight of Achilles against Scamander and Simoeis by Auguste Couder (1819), decoration of the Rotonde d'Apollon in the Palais du Louvre.. Simoeis or Simois [1] / ˈ s ɪ m oʊ ɪ s / (Ancient Greek: Σιμόεις Simóeis) was a river of the Trojan plain, now called the Dümruk Su (Dümrek Çayı), [2] and the name of its god in Greek mythology.

  7. Lethe - Wikipedia

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    Lethe, the river of forgetfulness, is one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld; the other four are Acheron (the river of sorrow), Cocytus (the river of lamentation), Phlegethon (the river of fire) and Styx (the river that separates Earth and the Underworld).

  8. Hades - Wikipedia

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    The five rivers of the realm of Hades, and their symbolic meanings, are Acheron (the river of sorrow, or woe), Cocytus (lamentation), Phlegethon (fire), Lethe (oblivion), and Styx (hate), the river upon which even the gods swore and in which Achilles was dipped to render him invincible. The Styx forms the boundary between the upper and lower ...

  9. Peleus - Wikipedia

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    Achilles, Polymele [1] Detail of Greek mosaic with Peleus and Clotho , Paphos Archaeological Park In Greek mythology , Peleus ( / ˈ p iː l i ə s , ˈ p iː lj uː s / ; Ancient Greek : Πηλεύς Pēleus ) was a hero, king of Phthia , husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles .