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Mission. Detail From an Athenian Red Figure Clay Vase, About 500 450 Bc
Dictionary entry, illustrated with scenes of his adventures, focuses on the Trojan War exploits of Greek hero Achilles.
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Achilles and Ajax. Detail From an Athenian Black Figure Clay Vase.
Dictionary entry, illustrated with scenes of his adventures, focuses on the Trojan War exploits of Greek hero Achilles.
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Drawing, Formerly Collection of Pembroke Hope. Lost. Rumpf, Chalk Vas Pl.12
Dictionary entry, illustrated with scenes of his adventures, focuses on the Trojan War exploits of Greek hero Achilles.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Chariot
In the battles, as depicted by Homer, the chiefs are the only important combatants, while the people are an almost useless mass, frequently put to rout by the prowess of a single hero. The chief is mounted in a war chariot, and stands by...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Achilles
Son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons. Hero of the Trojan War. Thetis is said to have dipped him, while an infant, in the river Styx, which rendered him invulnerable except in the heel by which she held him, and he was killed at last by a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hon. Zebulon B. Vance
Hero of the Civil War and Governor of North Carolina.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Paul Jones
(1747-1792) America's first famous naval hero in the American Revolutionay War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thaddeus Kosciusko
A Polish national hero, general and a leader of that nation's uprising against Russia in 1794. He fought in the American Revolutionary War on the side of Washinton, for which he was awarded by the Continental Congress the rank of Brevet...