Achilles

Also known as: Aspetus · Family: Greek mythology · Role: hero · First appears: Philopoemen

Life events

• Achilles and others rescued the infant Pyrrhus across the river, escaping his pursuers.(Pyrrhus)
  • With: Pyrrhus Androcleon Hippias Neander
  • “And it so fell out, that he who first got ashore, and took Pyrrhus in his arms, was named Achilles, the rest being helped over by others as they came to hand.”

Philopoemen

• mentor: Phoenix “by which means Philopoemen was educated by him, as Homer says Achilles was by Phoenix, and from his infancy molded to lofty and noble inclinations.”

Pyrrhus

• parent: Neoptolemus “Neoptolemus, Achilles's son, planting a colony, possessed these parts himself”

Comparison of Lysander with Sylla

• enemies with Paris (The passage presents Paris as the slayer of Achilles in their legendary conflict.) “as Achilles, they say, was slain by Paris in the gates”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.