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Society & Lifestyle > Mythology & Folklore Who was Achilles and what do you know about him?: 3 of 6

If you were offered the choice, would you choose a short life with eternal fame or a long life as a nameless nobody? That was the choice offered to Achilles when he was born via a prophecy given to his mother, a water nymph called Thetis. Like the majority of Greek heroes, Achilles was a demi-god, born of a union between a god and a human. Achilles was the son of Thetis by King Peleus, an unusual beginning for a demi-god as their mothers tended to be mortal women impregnated by a god. Thetis, after hearing this prophecy, began bathing Achilles in the river Styx, which led to the underworld...
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