Achilles 1890, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria, had a summer palace built in Corfu. The building is named the "Achilleion", after Achilles. Its paintings and statuary depict scenes from the Trojan War, with particular focus on Achilles. Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus ( ; , "Achilleus" ) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's "Iliad". His mother was the immortal Nereid Thetis, and his father, the mortal Peleus, was the king of the Myrmidons. Achilles' most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan
Achilles Tatius literary parallels between Leucippe and Clitophon and the Christian Acts of Andrew, a roughly contemporary composition. The "Suda" also ascribes to the author a work on the sphere (in Greek ), a fragment of which, professing to be an introduction to the "Phaenomena" of Aratus, may still be extant (in Greek ). This, however, may be the work of another Achilles Tatius, who lived in the 3rd century. This work is referred to by Firmicus Maternus, who about 336 speaks of the "prudentissimus Achilles" in his "Matheseos libri" ("Math." iv. 10). The fragment was first published in 1567, then in