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Achilles : son of Peleus & Thetis & one of the foremost Greek warriors in the Trojan War. When still a child, his mother had, hearing a prophecy that he would die at Troy, bathed him in the river Styx to make him invulnerable. But the water had not touched the heel by which she held him. He was killed by Paris, who wounded him, in that one vulnerable spot.