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He was the best fighter of the Greeks besieging Troy in 

the Trojan War.

When the hero Odysseus journeyed to the  

Underworld to seek the advice of the dead prophet 

    Teiresias, he encountered the shade of Achilles. 

This hero had slain the Trojan hero Hector in single combat 

 and had himself been brought down only by the connivance 

of Apollo. The god guided the arrow of Hector's brother

Paris to the only vulnerable spot on Achilles' body - his heel.

His mother Theis, the sea-goddess , has been allowed to  

protect him as she intended.

While he was a child she rubbed him each day 

with godly ambrosia, and each night she laid 

him upon a hearth of fire . 

He later grow up and it began when Calchas 

prophesizes 

that in order for the Greeks to take Troy, they 

would 

need the help of Achilles. Thetis, Achilles mother 

knew 

that if Achilles went into this battle, he would die.

She then sent young Achilles to Scyros where he 

was hidden away 

and disguised as a girl. 

Eventually, Achilles was caught by the crafty Odysseus, 

who placed some armor in with the women's things and 

caught Achilles 

as he was the only one to be fascinated by the hardware. 

Achilles then 

agreed to venture off with Odysseus to Troy, leading an 

army of his father's people, the Myrmidons, his tutor 

Phoenix and his close friend Patroclus.

Once at Troy, Achilles quickly showed himself to be an 

unbeatable warrior.

 Along the way, Achilles captured many towns in the Trojan 

territory. 

In the town of Lyrnessos, he took the woman Briseis as his own 

personal prize. In the midst of the war, Agamemnon, leader of 

the Greeks, 

was forced by an oracle of Apollo to give up Chryseis, his own 

prize. 

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