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the greek hero Achilles was nearly invulnerable,because his mother dipped him in the river styxas a baby. in doing so , she held him by his heel, which did not get wet and remained vulnerable. at one point during the Trojan war Achilles refused to fight. the Greeks began to lose, and so his friend patroclus donned his armour in order to give the Greeks the impreesion that Achilles was fighting with them once more. the ruse worked, but patroclus was slaine.angrily, Achilles fought and killed hector, the mightiest champion of the trojans and the brother of Paris, but Achilles himself was slain by an arrow shot by Paris that struck him in his vulnerable heel

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