Quote by Dan Simmons

“You think Achilles was of impressive descent? Touch me one more time. Maybe it’s time we found out what the daughter of the mightiest…

— Elisabeth Hewer

“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,…

— Emily Wilson

“In his tent, Achilles grieved with his whole being and the gods saw he was a man already dead, a victim of the part…

— Louise Glück

“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his, sulks in…

— Caroline Taggart

“I am a son of Achilles and Athens is my spiritual home.”

— Hekataios Amerikos

“The only difference between Zeus’s thunderbolt and Achilles’ heel is the perspective of the person telling the story.”

— Joshua Moore

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,' Chiron said. 'And perhaps it is a greater grief, after all, to be left…

— Madeline Miller

“Priam's eyes find the other body, mine, lying on the bed. He hesitates a moment. 'That is --- your friend?' 'Philtatos,' Achilles says, sharply.…

— Madeline Miller

“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the…

— Sulari Gentill

“So if the gods fight,' I said, 'will things line up the way they did with the Trojan War? Will it be Athena versus…

— Rick Riordan

“I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. Catch, he says.…

— Madeline Miller

To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory from Zeus, Achilles will…

— Cedric H Whitman