Anyone know anything about Greek Mythology?

[TambaTheDragonSlayer]

Just watched Troy.

Can anyone explain what the Achillies heel thing was all about please - got very confused

i've never watched troy. achilles was dipped in some river to make him immortal but his mother had to hold on to him by the heel so that was the only bit that didn't get wet. it was therefore the only place where he would die if shot. and guess what....

Just googled him and this is what I found...
Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid Thetis. He was the mightiest of the Greeks who fought in the Trojan War, and was the hero of Homer's Iliad.

Achilles Thetis attempted unsuccessfully to make her son immortal. There are two versions of the story. In the earlier version, Thetis anointed the infant with ambrosia and then placed him upon a fire to burn away his mortal portions; she was interrupted by Peleus, whereupon she abandoned both father and son in a rage. Peleus placed the child in the care of the Centaur Chiron, who raised and educated the boy. In the later version, she held the young Achilles by the heel and dipped him in the river Styx; everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remained dry and therefore unprotected.

There you go!

thanks

So say if the arrow had hit him in the chest he would have been fine but because it hit him in his heel he died?

Yup!