Achilles

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.9 Achilles

  Greatest Greek warrior at Troy, who 'burns for the stolen Briseis' and withdraws from battle.

• The Loves §2.9a Haemonian hero

  Achilles of Haemonia (Thessaly), whose spear both wounded and (its rust) healed Telephus; the model of a foe spared, unlike Love's friends.

• The Art of Love §1.1 Achilles

  Greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy, tutored as a boy by the Centaur Chiron.

• The Art of Love §2.31 Achilles

  The greatest Greek warrior, here shown tender with his captive Briseis off the battlefield.

• The Art of Love §2.32 grandson of Aeacus

  Achilles (Aeacides), mightiest of the Greeks in the strength of his right hand.

• The Heroides §1 the son of Aeacus

  Achilles, grandson of Aeacus and greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy.

• The Heroides §3 Achilles

  Greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy, son of Peleus and the sea-goddess Thetis; he has withdrawn from battle in anger and surrendered Briseis to Agamemnon.

• The Heroides §3 son of Aeacus

  Achilles, grandson of Aeacus; Briseis urges him to arm again.

• The Heroides §8 son of Aeacus

  Achilles, grandson of Aeacus; Hermione addresses Pyrrhus as his father's image and heir to his violence.

• The Heroides §8 the son of Peleus

  Achilles, slain by Apollo's guided arrow; had he lived he would have scorned his son's seizure of Hermione.

• The Heroides §20 Achilles

  The Greek hero who took Briseis as his prize.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.3 soil of Achilles

  Achilles, the great Greek hero, in whose Thessalian (Haemonian) home the exiled Patroclus was received.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.7 the Pelian spear

  The ash spear of Achilles, cut on Mount Pelion, which could both wound and heal; Ovid likens Augustus, who alone can undo the harm he dealt.

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.3 son of Aeacus

  Achilles, grandson of Aeacus, who honored the dead Patroclus with lavish funeral rites; the model of faith kept even beyond death.

• The Festivals §5.3 Hector

  The greatest Greek hero of the Trojan War, pupil of the Centaur Chiron.

• Ibis §10 Achillean ground

  'Achillean ground' is the White Island (Leuke) in the Black Sea sacred to Achilles, where one obscure victim was stripped and exposed.

• Ibis §11 violent Aeacides

  Achilles, grandson of Aeacus, who slaughtered twelve Trojan youths at the pyre of Patroclus.

• Ibis §20 brave Achilles

  Achilles, whose horses Dolon ('a fearful Phrygian') hoped to win on the fatal night-raid.

• Metamorphoses §8.205 great Achilles

  Achilles, greatest of the Greek heroes at Troy, here unborn.

• Metamorphoses §12.355 Achilles

  Greatest of the Greek warriors, son of Peleus and the Nereid Thetis; he kills Cycnus and Hector and is himself killed by Paris's god-guided arrow.

• Metamorphoses §13.385 great Achilles

  The greatest Greek warrior, son of Peleus and Thetis; the arms in dispute are his.

• The Cure for Love §2 Pelian spear

  The ash spear of Achilles, cut from Mount Pelion; it both wounded Telephus and, by its scrapings, healed him.

• Sorrows §1.1 Achilles' fashion

  Achilles, whose spear could both wound and heal; only the hand that gave the wound (Augustus) can cure it.