person
Achilles
also: Achilleus, Akhilleus
The greatest warrior of the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad, whose anger (menis) is the epic's opening theme; invoked by Madách's poet-figure as an archetypal heroic spirit he feels animating his own patriotic verse.
Reading notes
- Drama Fragments (Five Pieces) §34 Achilleus
Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Trojan War and hero of Homer's Iliad; the poet invokes his famous anger (the opening theme of the Iliad) as an inspiration for his own heroic poetry.
- Studies and Articles §1.1.1 Ajax
Ajax (Aias), the great Achaean warrior of Homer's Iliad, is the protagonist of Sophocles's Ajax. Driven mad when the arms of the dead Achilles are awarded to Odysseus rather than to him, he slaughters a flock of sheep in a delusion that they are his enemies, then kills himself in shame.
- Dream of Fairies (Fragment) §34 the wrath of Achilleus
Achilleus (Achilles), hero of Homer's Iliad; the Poet invokes him as the archetypal figure of heroic wrath and greatness. The Hungarian spelling Achilleus reflects 19th-century classical usage.