Figure Greek and Roman
Achilles
Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War
- Child of Thetis and Peleus
- Consort of Helen of Troy, Deidamia
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Offices held 1
- Dates unrecorded king of Myrmidons
Family
The family of Achilles
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 18
Kinship in an account 10
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (father) Peleus son of Aeacus in Greek mythology -
child of (child) Thetis Nereid of Greek mythology - parent of (child) Euphorion figure of Greek mythology; son of Achilles
- parent of (child) Neoptolemus
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partner of Briseis daughter of Briseus in Greek mythology -
partner of (spouse) Deidamia Greek mythological figure, daughter of Lycomedes - partner of Diomede
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partner of Helen of Troy daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology -
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partner of Patroclus son of Menoetius in Greek mythology, a greek hero of the Trojan war -
partner of Penthesilea Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, daughter of Ares and Otrera
Family 8
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Peleus son of Aeacus in Greek mythology
- partner of Briseis daughter of Briseus in Greek mythology
- partner of Deidamia Greek mythological figure, daughter of Lycomedes
- partner of Helen of Troy daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology
- partner of Patroclus son of Menoetius in Greek mythology, a greek hero of the Trojan war
- partner of Penthesilea Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, daughter of Ares and Otrera
- married to Helen of Troy daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology
- married to Deidamia Greek mythological figure, daughter of Lycomedes
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Written 8th century BCEIliad
epic poem attributed to Homer -
Written 1320 CEThe Divine Comedy
Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri
Also in films, games and series: Hades
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
17 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 15 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 3 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
1 recorded statement points at a record with no English name anywhere, so it is counted here rather than drawn.
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