- Achilles (disambiguation)
Achilles is the name of the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War.Achilles may also refer to:
* "Achilles" (play), a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian AeschylusScience and technology
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Achilles tendon , a posterior tendon of the leg
*Achilles (1903 Automobile) , an obsolete British automobile maker
*588 Achilles , the first Trojan asteroid to be discovered
* HMS "Achilles", the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
* USS "Achilles", warship of the United States Navy
* M10 Achilles, British variant of theM10 Wolverine , a World War II tank destroyer
* Achilles (1873-1892), one of the tenSouth Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotivesChristian Saints
* Saint Achilles, one of the four
Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancratius
*Achilles of Larissa (d. 330 AD)
*Achilleus Kewanuka (d. 1886)Music
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Achilles Last Stand , a song by Led Zeppelin off their 1976 album "Presence"Places
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Achilles, Kansas , United States, a ghost town in Rawlins County
*Achilles Point , a headland in Auckland, New ZealandPeople with the given name Achilles
* Achilles, son of Lyson of Athens, who was believed to have first introduced in his native city the mode of sending persons into exile by
ostracism . [Ptolem. Heph. vi. p. 333] Several other and more credible accounts, however, ascribe this institution with more probability to other persons. [Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
author-link = Leonhard Schmitz
contribution = Achilles (2)
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 11
publisher =
place = Boston, MA
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0020.html ]
*Achilleus (emperor) , the ruler of Egypt for a very short time in the late 3rd century AD
*Achilles Alferaki , Russian-Greek composer and statesman
*Achilles de Flandres , the antagonist in Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" series
*Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, a Roman-era Greek writer
*Chris Achilleos , a Greek-Cypriotic/British painter and illustrator
*Theodore Achilles , American diplomatee also
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Achille (disambiguation) References
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