she tossed down the child and left both him and Peleus, rejoining her fellow Nereids. Thetis never stopped caring for her son, however, and always kept an eye out for his welfare.(Internet)Since his wife was gone, Peleus sent his son to the famous Centaur, Chiron where he learned how to become the man he was. To attain all these great skill he had, Achilles was sent to Mount Pelion. On Mount Pelion Achilles was fed meat from lions and wild boars, and the marrow of bears to give him courage. A diet of honey-comb and fawn's marrow made him a fast runner. Chiron taught Achilles the arts of riding, hunting, archery, pipe-playing, healing and more. Achilles was still a young child while learning all of these things too. At the young age of six, he had killed his first wild boar and soon thereafter brought home wild game every night. After a few years, when Achilles was nine years old, the prophet Calchas said that the Greeks would never overthrow Troy without the help of Achilles. Knowing that her son would either die as a young man or live to be a prosperous man she sent him away to Lycomedes, king of Scyros. He did not like the fact he had to dress like a girl, but because he was it made it easier to get to the kings daughter, Diedameia. What started out as an affair turned into love and Diedameia became pregnant. Before he was sent off to defend the Greek at age fifteen, he and Diedameia married. Achilles took over fifty ships with him to Aulis to join his fellow Greeks, he was also told by his mother that the first person to set foot on the ground when they land would die. Listening to his mother Achilles avoided being the first to set foot on Tojan soil. The first person to set foot was an unlucky man by the name of Protesilaus. Before he died though, Protesilaus killed many Trojans. Achilles was a brave warrior taking down many towns and killing many, many men. He quit the war for a while though because of Agamemnon who took away the ...
