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Achilles (Ancient Greek: Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús)) was a hero of the Achaean Greeks in the legends of the Trojan War, and the principal character of Homer's 8th century BC epic poem the Iliad. The son of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, Achilles was a fearsome warrior who chose a short, glorious life over a long and undistinguished one. During the Trojan War, in his wrath over the death of his companion Patroclus, he killed the Trojan hero and defender Hector. According to later traditions, he was a
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