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	Achilles

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6-19-2008 8:48 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5d569f94-cc07-45ba-a379-abac604b2475/61CC88C0-76CB-4799-9A54-762E0E8291DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925"><P>In <A title="Greek mythology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology">Greek mythology</A>, <B>Achilles</B> (also <B>Akhilleus</B> or <B>Achilleus</B>; <A title="Ancient Greek" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek">Ancient Greek</A>: <SPAN lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">Ἀχιλλεύς</SPAN>) was a <A title="Greeks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks">Greek</A> <A title="Hero" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero">hero</A> of the <A title="Trojan War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War">Trojan War</A>, the <A title="Central character" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_character">central character</A> and the greatest warrior of <A title="Homer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer">Homer's</A> <I><A title="Iliad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad">Iliad</A></I>, which takes for its theme the Wrath of Achilles.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925"><SPAN>Achilles</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925"><H3 id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/1239780D-CBEA-4163-9CD2-E616C964A6E6" alt="The Rage of Achilles, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925"><SPAN class="mw-headline">Achilles in the Trojan War</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925"><P>The first two lines of the <I>Iliad</I> read:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achilles&oldid=219582925"><P>Achilles is the only mortal to experience consuming rage (<I>menis</I>). His anger is at some times wavering, at other times absolute. The humanization of Achilles by the events of the war is an important theme of the narrative.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/61CC88C0-76CB-4799-9A54-762E0E8291DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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