. and themarrow of bears. According to other ac-counts, Thetis endeavoured to make Achillesimmortal by dipping him in the river Styx, andsucceeded with the exception of the heel, bywhich she held him (Stat. Achill. i. 269). Whenhe had reached the age of nine, Calchas de-clared that Troy could not be taken withouthis aid; and Thetis, knowing that the warwould be fatal to him, disguised him as amaiden, and introduced him among thedaughters of Lycomedes of Scyros, where hewas called by the name of Pyrrha on accountof his golden locks. H
. and themarrow of bears. According to other ac-counts, Thetis endeavoured to make Achillesimmortal by dipping him in the river Styx, andsucceeded with the exception of the heel, bywhich she held him (Stat. Achill. i. 269). Whenhe had reached the age of nine, Calchas de-clared that Troy could not be taken withouthis aid; and Thetis, knowing that the warwould be fatal to him, disguised him as amaiden, and introduced him among thedaughters of Lycomedes of Scyros, where hewas called by the name of Pyrrha on accountof his golden locks. Here he remained con-cealed till Ulysses visited the place in the dis-guise of a merchant, and offered for sale somefemale dresses, amidst which he had mixedsome arms. Achilles discovered his sex byeagerly seizing the arms, and then accompaniedUlysses to the Greek army. During his resi-dence at Scyros, one of his companions, Dei-damia, became by him the mother of Pyrrhusor Neoptolemus. [For the events at Aulis andthe pretext of marrying Iphigenia to him, see. Achilles at Scyros. (From the Louvre.) his remains, together with those of Patroclus,were buried in a golden urn which Dionysushad given as a present to Thetis, and were de-posited on the coast of the Hellespont, where amound was raised over them. Achilles is theprincipal hero of the Iliad; he is the hand-somest and bravest of all the Greeks; affec-tionate towards his mother and his friends;formidable in battles, which are his delight;open-hearted and without fear, and at the sametime susceptible to the gentle and quiet joysof home. His greatest passion is ambition,and when his sense of honour is hurt he is un-relenting in his revenge and anger, but withalsubmits obediently to the will of the gods.—Later traditions. These chiefly consist ofaccounts which fill up the history of his youthand death. His mother, wishing to make himimmortal, concealed him by night in fire, in orderto destroy the mortal parts he had inheritedfr
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