achilles

Noun
  1. A mythical Greek hero of the Iliad;
    A foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy;
    When he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel' (synset 109617472)
    is an instance of: mythical being - an imaginary being of myth or fable

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