WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Book 21 of The Iliad finds Achilles slaughtering Trojans in the river Xanthus. He meets Lycaon, his previous prisoner. In his heightened state of rage, Achilles has no mercy, and he kills Lycaon. Eventually the river god Xanthus himself resists the killing and fights Achilles with the power of the water and waves.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scamander fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War (Iliad XX, 73/74; XXI), after the Greek hero Achilles insulted him. Scamander was also said to have attempted to kill Achilles three times, and the hero was only saved due to the intervention of Hera, Athena and Hephaestus.

Detailed explanation-3: -The story goes that his mother, Thetis, made him invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx while he was still an infant. The problem was that she held him by the heels, which were not wetted; this remained a vulnerable part of his anatomy. Achilles became a great warrior and slew Hector of Troy in battle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although the death of Achilles is not presented in the Iliad, other sources concur that he was killed near the end of the Trojan War by Paris, who shot him with an arrow.