Achilles (disambiguation)

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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 Aeschylus

Contents 1 Science and technology 2 Christian Saints 3 Music 4 Places 5 Other 6 People with the given name Achilles 7 See also 8 References

[edit] Science and technology

• 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 the M10 Wolverine, a World War II tank destroyer
• Achilles (1873-1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives

[edit] Christian Saints

• Saint Achilles, one of the four Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancratius
• Achilles of Larissa (d. 330 AD)
• Achilleus Kewanuka (d. 1886)

[edit] Music

• Achilles Last Stand, a song by Led Zeppelin off their 1976 album Presence

[edit] Places

• Achilles, Kansas, a ghost town in Rawlins County, Kansas, USA
• Achilles Point, a headland in Auckland, New Zealand

[edit] Other

• Achilles is a male meerkat featured in Meerkat Manor

[edit] People with the given name Achilles

• Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, a Roman-era Greek writer.
• Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and statesman.
• Achilles de Flandres, the antagonist in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series.
• 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.^[1] Several other and more credible accounts, however, ascribe this institution with more probability to other persons.^[2]
• Achilleus (emperor) was the ruler of Egypt for a very short time in the late 3rd century AD.
• Chris Achilleos, a Greek-Cypriotic/British painter and illustrator.
• Theodore Achilles, American diplomat.

[edit] See also

• Achille (disambiguation)

[edit] References

1. ^ Ptolem. Heph. vi. p. 333
2. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Achilles (2)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 11