Named for the bravest of the Greeks in the Trojan War. As an infant he was plunged in the River Styx by his mother Thetis {see planet  (17)}, thus rendering his body invulnerable excepting the heel by which he was held. He slew Hector {see planet  (624)}, the greatest Trojan warrior. He was eventually killed by an arrow in the heel by Paris {see planet  (3317)}. Achilles is the central figure in Homer’s Iliad {see planets  (5700),  (6604)}. (H 62) _ _.