Languages: This boy's name is used in Italian.

Narrative: This was the name of the premier Greek hero of the Trojan war, celebrated in Homer's Iliad and many subsequent works of Western literature. His powers as a warrior are never in question, but he is often portrayed as brooding and self-absorbed.

He was a son of the nymph Thetis, who so doted on him that she dipped him into the river Styx to protect him from harm. She held him by the heel, and it was a blow to this vulnerable spot that finally brought him down, giving us the term ''Achilles heel.''