slave girl Briseis, who was Achilles lover at the time. Agamemnon finally came around and gave back Briseis. This still did not please Achilles who was sulking around in his tent all the time. Seeing that his ships were being burned down though, he gave his armor to his best friend Patroclus. Patroclus took the armor and fought very bravely for a while until his death by the hands of Hector, who took the armor for himself. When Achilles learned about the death of his friend, he became enraged and vowed revenge. He went to his mother and asked her to get him some more armor from the god of smiths, Hephaestus. He received his armor, headed back into battle, and went looking for Hector. Hector, thinking that because Achilles had been sitting around so long he would be out of shape, decided that he was going to run around the city of Troy and wear out Achilles. His plan backfired and he had to fight Achilles instead. He was slain and Achilles friend was avenged. Achilles was still unhappy though, so he drug the body of Hector around Troy by his horses three times. Then after Patroclus was buried, Achilles took Hectors body and drug it around Patrocluss tomb three times every night.Soon after that Achilles went back to war and caused much more destruction to the Trojan army. The gods Apollo and Poseidon had other plans for Achilles though, they sought out Paris, who shot Achilles in the ankle, his only vulnerable spot, with a poisoned arrow.His body was burned on a pyre on the eighteenth day and his ashes were mixed with Patrocluss ashes and put in a golden urn made by Hephaestus and buried at Sigaeum. But Thetis took Achilles' soul from the pyre and brought it to the island of Leuce, where he rejoined his dead friends, including Patroclus.Achilles was a great warrior with only one flaw, like many other warriors and great men, they are all perfect except one little flaw. Achilles was almost as great a hero as Hercules was. They were taught b...
