The ancient Greek warrior 'Achilles'
A beautiful statuette of high quality
Beautifully sculpted and made of cold cast resin
With a bronze finish
Measurements: 11.1/4" inches height .

Shopping Uncle Trojan Brave Hearts Table Accent Achilles, in Greek mythology, son of the mortal Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, and the Nereid, or sea nymph, Thetis. Achilles was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War." Achilles was the best fighter of the Greeks insulted Troy in the Trojan War. When the hero traveled Odysseus to the underworld to seek the advice of the dead profeet Teiresias, he met the shadow of Achilles. This hero had killed the Trojan hero Hector in one fight and had himself settled by Apollo's connivity. The god led the arrow of Hector's brother Paris to the only vulnerable place on the body of Achilles - his heel. Achilles would not have been fragile even in this part of his body had his mother, the sea goddess Thetis, allowed to protect him as she intended. When he was a baby, she rubbed him with divine ambrosia every day, and every night she put him on the fire of the hearth. Unfortunately, the father of Achilles did not know that this procedure would make his son immortal. And when he came home unexpectedly one night to find his wife holding their baby in the flames, he called in alarm. Thetis was insulted and went home to her father, the old man of the sea, leaving Achilles in his mortal fate. Another version of the myth has Thetis trying to protect her baby by dipping him into the river Styx. The helly waters indeed made Achilles skin impermeable to the will of any purely Trojan arrow. But Thetis forgot she held him at the heel while immersing so that that part was unprotected.