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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IsuruP123" data-source="post: 17985523" data-attributes="member: 518091">Achilles’ death occurs outside the scope of the Iliad, when he is shot by an arrow from the skilled archer Paris, helped by the hand of Apollo.Knowing that Achilles was destined to be a hero who would win glory but also die in battle, she bathed the infant in the river Styx, trying to make him invulnerable to wounds. But the heel by which she held the child remained dry, and it was from an arrow wound in that heel that Achilles eventually died. The arrow was shot by either Apollo or Paris, in a battle near the end of the Trojan War.Later legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel. Because of his death from a small wound in the heel, the term Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's point of weakness.</blockquote>

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