Achilles (disambiguation)
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Achilles is the name of a Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War.
Achilles may also refer to:
Science, technology, medicine[edit]
- Achilles tendon, posterior tendon of the leg
- 588 Achilles, first Trojan asteroid to be discovered
- Morpho achilles, butterfly of South America
Christian saints[edit]
- Saint Achilles (disambiguation), multiple saints named Achilles
- Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus (d. 212), martyr
- Achilles of Larissa (d. 330 AD)
- Achilleus Kewanuka (d. 1886)
Fiction[edit]
- Achilleis, a trilogy of plays written by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus
- Achilles (Marvel Comics), a member of the fictional group known as the Pantheon in the Marvel universe
- Olympian (comics), whose second DC Comics incarnation is that of the Greek hero Achilles
Music[edit]
- "Achilles Last Stand", a song by Led Zeppelin off their 1976 album Presence
- Achilles (band), a hardcore band from upstate New York
Places[edit]
- Achilles, Kansas, US, a ghost town in Rawlins County
- Achilles, Virginia, US, an unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia
- Achilles Point, a headland in Auckland, New Zealand
- 588 Achilles, the first Trojan asteroid to be discovered
People[edit]
- Achilleus (emperor), the ruler of Egypt for a very short time in the late 3rd century AD
- Achilles (judge royal), Hungarian noble
- Achilles Alferaki, Russian-Greek composer and statesman
- Achilles de Flandres, the antagonist in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series
- Achilles Tatius of Alexandria, a Roman-era Greek writer
- Theodore Achilles, American diplomat
- Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt, Duke of Württemberg
Transport and military[edit]
- Achilles (automobile), a British automobile maker, 1903 to 1908
- Achilles (1873–1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
- Achilles, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
- 17pdr SP M10C Achilles and 3in SP M10 Achilles, British variants of the M10, a World War II tank destroyer
- HMS Achilles, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
- HMNZS Achilles, New Zealand Navy Cruiser, 1932-1948
- USS Achilles, warship of the US Navy
Sport[edit]
- Achilles '29, a Dutch football club bases in Groesbeek
- Achilles F.C., an English football club based in Ipswich
See also[edit]
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