Salutations people! Do you know someone named
Achilles? He just died yesterday, and I am writing about how he died and what
happened before he died.
Achilles is the
son of Peleus and Thetis. A smart centaur named Chiron educated him. He's half
man half horse. Achilles' mother is a sea nymph. Someone said that Achilles will
die in a war and will bring so much sadness to his mother. Because of this, his
parents became too protective of Achilles.
Without the
father knowing, the mother secretly put him in the fire at night, to prevent
him from dieing. He was also rubbed by ambrosia during the day. If she did this
every day, Achilles will not die. But sadly, one night Peleus saw Thetis
putting him in the fire. Peleus didn't let her put him in the fire, so one day
Peleus will die.
But Thetis
wouldn't give up! She was so a stubborn! Thetis dipped him in the Styx River;
to make him immortal. But Thetis holds Achilles by the heels, so the water
can't touch the heels. Achilles could die if there's a wound in his heel. That
is about Achilles' past.
A month ago,
when the Greeks began to create an army, the parents didn't want Achilles to
die, so they hid him in Sycros, dressed as a girl, to work as a spinning
weaving girl.
But the Greeks
couldn't control Troy without Achilles. Ulysses come to Sycros as a peddler,
and was selling weapons among the girls. As you know, 
girls don't have any interest in weapons. But men will. Ulysses
saw a spinning girl that showed interest in weapons. Pretty soon, Ulysses knew
that he was Achilles.
Achilles was a very good leader. Many of the Troy people die. Two weeks before, Achilles is fighting with Agamemnon because of a maiden. Achilles was angry and grumbling, so he didn't want to take part with the battle of Troy. A week before, Hector killed his friend, Patroculus, to make Achilles go to battle. Achilles was angry and mad, and he killed Hector 5 days ago and joined the battle.
Yesterday, Apollo shot
Achilles with an arrow at his heel during the battle with Paris. Achilles died.