THE DEATH OF ACHILLES

Summery of the story
The story is basically about how Achilles died. Poseidon was angry about the war in Troy, and he knew that Achilles had to die. He told one of the other Gods to tell one of the soldiers to kill Achilles. He God his and influenced the soldier to kill Achilles. He was killed by Paris. Paris shot an arrow into his heel, which was his only weak spot.
http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph12.htm#486225997

The main way Achilles is known is through the Illiad by Homer. This is a story written about Achilles, but it does not tell about his death.

Homer, William Cowper, John Johnson, John Henry. Fuseli, Henry Howard, Robert Smirke, Thomas Stothard, and Thomas Westall. The Illiad .. London: Pub. by J. Johnston, & Sharpe & Hailes; Print., by S. Hamilton, 1810. Print.

Another work that tells the story of Achilles is the Achilleid. This is an unfinished book that was written by Publius Papinius Statius. The book was supposed to be about Achilles' life from his childhood to his death, but the author died. The story now is just about the early life of Achilles.
http://www.theoi.com/Text/StatiusAchilleid1A.html

People in Ancient Rome looked down on Achilles and said that he was a savage and a butcher of men. This is told in Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae. This book and few others were used to tell the story of Achilles until the 17th century.
Colonne, Guido Delle. Historia Destructionis Troiae. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1974. Print.

In a journal article by Jonathan Burgess, he talks about how Achilles had a fatal flaw. He was made invulnerable by being dipped into the river Styx, but his heel was not dipped in. This is the reason that people say that Paris shot him in the heel. His heel was his only weak spot and it was the only way to kill him.

In a review by Casey Duè Hackney, he talks about how he agrees with Burgess, and he says that Burgess understands the concept of the fatal flaw and he has a great understanding for mythology.

It is said that after Achilles died, he became a judge in the underworld, and was blessed.
(Mela, ii. 7; Schol. ad Pind. Nem. iv. 49; Paus. iii. 19. § 11.)

There is another journal article that is written by Herbert Scott and is about Achilles's heel and the affects that it has on modern day.

Through all of these books and articles, we are able to see that the story of Achilles's death is a very well known story. It also has not been changed much throughout the years, because almost everyone has the same theory about how Achilles died.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph12.htm#486225997
• Homer, William Cowper, John Johnson, John Henry. Fuseli, Henry Howard, Robert Smirke, Thomas Stothard, and Thomas Westall. The Illiad .. London: Pub. by J. Johnston, & Sharpe
• http://www.theoi.com/Text/StatiusAchilleid1A.html
• Colonne, Guido Delle. Historia Destructionis Troiae. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1974. Print.
• Burgess, Jonathan. "Achilles' Heel: The Death of Achilles in Ancient Myth." Classical Antiquity 14.2 (1995): 217-44. Web.

CONTENUED

• Hackney, Casey Dué. "Review: The Death and Afterlife of Achilles." Hermathena No. 188 (2010): 71-76. JSTOR. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.
• Scott, Herbert. "Achilles' Heel." Mississippi Review 8.3 (1979): 104. JSTOR. Web. 17 Feb. 2015.