Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
1910,Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy,The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1)[1], Edinburgh; London: T. N. Foulis, page36:
If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-livedAchilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.
2012, Richard Holway,BecomingAchilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond[2], Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page153:
In the last third of the Iliad,Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearingAchilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguringAchilles’ own.
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(uncountable,Greekmythology)Achilles(mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp)
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