Achilles is a figure from Greek mythology and literature and star of the Trojan War. Leader of the fearsome Myrmidons, sacker of cities, and slayer of Hector, godlike Achilles was quite simply invincible in battle. Only the divine intervention of Apollo finally put an end to his long reign as the greatest Greek warrior of them all.
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1750 BCE - 1300 BCETroy VI - probable Troy of Homer's Iliad. City at its zenith.
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1334 BCETrojan War, according to Duris of Samos.
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c. 1250 BCETrojan War, according to Herodotus.
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1184 BCETrojan War, according to Eratosthenes.
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c. 800 BCE - c. 700 BCEHomer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.
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c. 540 BCEA black-figure vase by Exekias depicts Achilles killing the Amazon Penthesilea.
