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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.
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Achilles Defeating Hector or Achilles the Vanquisher of Hector (French - Achille vainqueur d'Hector) is a c.1630 oil on panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, showing Achilles defeating Hector during the Trojan War, with Athena hovering above. [1] It was originally intended as a cartoon for a tapestry and is now in the musée des Beaux-Arts de ...
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According to the Achilleid, written by Statius in the 1st century AD, and to non-surviving previous sources, when Achilles was born 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 [14] [15] (see Achilles' heel, Achilles tendon). It ...
One of her hands rests on a wheel, which may signify the fickleness of fortune and Hannibal's tragic end. [14] This element was borrowed from the works of Corrado Giaquinto. [8] In the foreground, facing away from the viewer and closing the composition, is a figure representing the allegory of the longest river in Italy – the Po. [14]
Every once in a while, a contestant's answer on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" just makes us cringe.This week, Rachel Brill was that person. BRILL: "I'd like to solve the puzzle." SAJAK: "Okay."
The painting is in the neo-classical style and belongs to the school of Jacques-Louis David, in whose studio Ingres had trained. It also shows new influences from John Flaxman, whose work had just had its first Parisian exhibition. [2] A small oil-on-wood sketch for the painting is in the collection of the nationalmuseum of Sweden.