Final Paper
5. Which mythological figure we have been introduced to would you like to interview? What questions would you ask and what answers would you expect?
I have always found Achilles to be an interesting subject in mythology. He was known mainly as a warrior of the Trojan War. However, he is also a hero, and a demigod. Achilles is the son of the sea goddess Thetis and Peleus a mortal. Thetis wanted to make her son immortal, so she dipped Achilles in the Styx River holding him by his heels. By holding Achilles by the heal this was the only part of his body that wasn’t submersed in the water, making his heel his venerable spot, and his only weakness. This is the story on how Achilles got his venerability. As most everyone knows, Achilles was known as a warrior of the Trojan War. Achilles’ mother did not want him to go to war so in order to prevent this; she dressed Achilles up as a girl and sent him to live with the women on the court of King Lycomedes of Skyros. This is where Odysseus unveiled the warrior Achilles, and he followed Odysseus into the battle of Troy. During the War in Troy Achilles took over twenty-three towns of Trojan land. While doing so, Achilles took a woman by the name of Briseis as a prize. Eventually she was taken from him by an oracle to make up for the losses of Agamemnon, because he was also forced to give up a woman by the name of Chryseis. This made Achilles very angry and he refused to fight with the Greeks. He sent his friend Patroclus to fight for him, and in doing so he was killed. Hector a warrior of the Trojan War thought that Patroclus was Achilles and killed him and stripped him of the armor he was wearing. Achilles was very angry at what happened and he went and killed Hector and drug the body behind a chariot, and refused to let him be buried. Eventually, he let the body go to be buried. Achilles was killed...