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  2. Achilles - Wikipedia

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    Achilles' Wrath is a concert piece by Sean O'Loughlin. [99] Temporary Like Achilles is a song on the 1966 double-album Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan; Achilles Last Stand is a song on the 1976 Led Zeppelin album Presence. Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts is the first song on the 1992 Manowar album The Triumph of Steel.

  3. Achilles number - Wikipedia

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    An Achilles number is a number that is powerful but not a perfect power. [1] A positive integer n is a powerful number if, for every prime factor p of n , p 2 is also a divisor . In other words, every prime factor appears at least squared in the factorization.

  4. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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    Achilles wearing his armor. Armor of Achilles, created by Hephaestus and said to be impenetrable. (Greek mythology) Armor of Beowulf, a mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) Armor of Örvar-Oddr, an impenetrable "silken mailcoat". (Norse mythology)

  5. List of demigods - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 November 2024. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...

  6. Myrmidons - Wikipedia

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    Achilles In Greek mythology , the Myrmidons (or Myrmidones ; Ancient Greek : Μυρμῐδόνες , Murmidónes , singular: Μυρμῐδών , Murmidṓn ) were an ancient Thessalian tribe.

  7. Epithets in Homer - Wikipedia

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    A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.

  8. Weak shipbuilding could be the US Navy's Achilles' heel in a ...

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    The US Navy faces critical shipbuilding problems that could hobble it in a war with China.. The Navy's aging fleet of aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines faces lengthy maintenance and ...

  9. List of Homeric characters - Wikipedia

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    Briseis, a woman captured in the sack of Lyrnessus, a small town in the territory of Troy, and awarded to Achilles as a prize. Agamemnon takes her from Achilles in Book 1 and Achilles withdraws from battle as a result. Chryseis, Chryses’ daughter, taken as a war prize by Agamemnon. Clymene, servant of Helen along with her mother Aethra.