 | Harriet English - Children - 1799 - 448 pages
...Thetis and Peleus. When an infant, his mother dipped him in the waters of the Styx ; Z z which which rendered him invulnerable in every part, except the heel, by which she held him. Afterwards, when he went to the Trojan war, to guard him still more from danger, she prevailed with... | |
 | Lodovico Ariosto - Roland (Legendary character) - 1807 - 290 pages
...story of Achilles is that he was dipped in the river Styx by his mother Thetis, and thereby hecame invulnerable in every part except the heel by which she held him, and that he was at last shot by Paris at the altar, in the only vulnerable place, at the instigation... | |
 | Ovid - Latin language - 1827 - 332 pages
...Peleus and Thetis. Soon after he was born, his mother plunged him into the river Styx ; and thus made him invulnerable in every part except the heel, by which she held him. This precaution was not however sufficient to divest her of her fears for his future safety ; and when... | |
 | E. A. GILBERT - 1849 - 114 pages
...all the Greeks in the Trojan war. During his infancy his mother dipped him into the river Styx, which rendered him invulnerable in every part except the heel, by which she held him. It is said that Paris aimed an arrow B at his vulnerable heel, in the tenth year of the Trojan war,... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Mythology, Classical - 1849 - 516 pages
...forth nectar for the guests. When Achilles was born, Thetis plunged him in the river Styx, which made him invulnerable in every part except the heel, by which she held him. And in this heel he received a fatal wound. Achilleus, like the other heroes, was reared by the wise... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Mythology, Classical - 1864 - 356 pages
...forth aectat for the guests. When Achilles was born, Thetis plunged him in tlic river Styx, which made him invulnerable in every part except the heel, by which she held him. And in this heel he received a fatal wound. Acbillctts. like the other heroes. was reared by the wise... | |
 | Jean Macé - Biology - 1868 - 324 pages
...known." — Tfote of Translator . \ The goddess Thetis dipped her son Achilles in the river Styx, which rendered him invulnerable in every part except the heel, by •which she held him. On the capture of Troy, Polyxena was promised to Achilles as his wife, but while he stood before the... | |
 | Otto Seemann - 1877 - 300 pages
...the goddess Thetis — a beautiful daughter of Nereus — to wife. She bore him one son, Achilleus (Achilles), the greatest and bravest hero of the Trojan...In addition to Chiron, Homer names Phoenix, the son of Amyntor, as the instructor of the youthful hero. Achilles proceeded to the Trojan war with cheerful... | |
 | Otto Seemann - Art, Greek - 1881 - 332 pages
...the goddess Thetis — a beautiful daughter of Nereus — to wife. She bore him one son, Achilleus (Achilles), the greatest and bravest hero of the Trojan...wonderful skill in all feats of strength and agility that ho soon surpassed all his contemporaries. In addition to Chiron, Homer names Phoenix, the son of Amyntor,... | |
 | Otto Seemann - 1884 - 320 pages
...about to render her child immortal in the fire, just as Demeter intended to do to the child of Celeus; but this story is unknown to Homer. According to a...all noble heroes, Achilles was instructed by Chiron, nnder whom he acquired such wonderful skill in all feats of strength and agility that he soon surpassed... | |
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Achilleus (Achilles), the greatest and bravest hero of the Trojan war. A later tradition asserts that Thetis left her husband soon after the birth of Achilles, because he had disturbed her when she was about to render her child immortal in the fire, just... 
