{"id":12655,"count":1,"description":"In Greek mythology, Achilles (Ancient Greek: \u1f08\u03c7\u03b9\u03bb\u03bb\u03b5\u03cd\u03c2, Akhilleus, pronounced\u00a0[ak\u02b0ill\u011bu\u032fs]) was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad.\nPlato named Achilles the handsomest of the heroes assembled against Troy.\nLater legends (beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel. As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's principal weakness.\nAchilles' name can be analyzed as a combination of \u1f04\u03c7\u03bf\u03c2 (akhos) \"grief\" and \u03bb\u03b1\u03cc\u03c2 (Laos) \"a people, tribe, nation, etc.\" In other words, Achilles is an embodiment of the grief of the people, grief being a theme raised numerous times in the Iliad (frequently by Achilles). Achilles' role as the hero of grief forms an ironic juxtaposition with the conventional view of Achilles as the hero of kleos (glory, usually glory in war).\nLaos has been construed by Gregory...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/achilles\/","name":"Achilles","slug":"achilles","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/12655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}