Achille's+Heel

=__Achilles' Heel__=

__Explanation/background informationabout the allusion:[[image:achilles-heel.jpg width="296" height="260" align="right"]]__
==Achilles was the mightiest warrior who fought in the Trojan War and was the hero of Homer's lliad. He was the son of nymph Thetis and Peleus. He died due to a poisonous arrow that was shoot into his heel. Thetis tried to make achilles immortal by dipping him in the river styx when he was born. While she was dipping him into the water she held his heel.Thetis retained Achilles by his heel while dipping him so that his heel wasn't touching the water. Achilles’ heel stayed mortal while the rest of his body became immortal. In the Trojan War Achilles gave Telephus a wound that would not heal. He refused to fight or lead his troops while the other Greek forces. Achilles prayed to his mother Thetis to convince Zeus to help the the Tojans gain ground in the war. Achilles was shot on his heel with an arrow and died because of his wound. His role as the hero of a grief forms an ironic act of positioning close together based on views of Achilles as a hero of glory. He is portrayed as a former hero who has become lazy and was a major character an still is in Paris.==

__**Other Information That We Feel is Necessary To Convey In Relation To Our allusion:**__
==**One of the fifty nereids was Achilles mother Thetis. The nereids were friendly women who lived on the Mediterranean Sea which they helped peolpe out if they were stuck on the ocean.Achilles’ father Peleus was King of the Myrmidons and he also. and was one of the Argonauts who traveled along with Jason on the quest for the golden fleece. By using the expression Achilles heel came to find out that it meant a small but fatal vulnerability, and the tendon connecting the heel to the calf became known as the Achilles tendon.**==

**__An Original Example:__**
==One of our original example that we found was that Achilles Heel occurs in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. Voldemort is a the primary villain in the novel, seems to appear that he is powerful and generally more gifted as a wizard than any other character in the novels. His weakness is love: his Achilles' Heel is his inability to love and form friendships. While finding the weaknesses Harry Potter defeats the challenged wizard and Voldemort gives up to his Achilles' Heel.==

==**Works Cited ** == == **Griffin. "Achilles AchillesTendon.com." Everything About Achilles Tendons . 2004-2006. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. . ** == == **"Mithology :Achilles, Pyrrhus,Olimpia,Alexander The Great ...." Illyrians.org . 2006. Web. 28 Oct. 2010. . ** ==