wellis
Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and Peleus. Both Zeus and Poseidon had been courting Thetis until a prophecy by Prometheus warned that Thetis would bear a son greater than his father.
Achilles
Birth of Achilles
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jkwilliams
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According to a first-century AD account by Statius, Thetis tried to make her son immortal by dipping him in the river Styx.
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EthanVT
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But the ankle wasn't dipped