Armor of Achilles
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Achilles' armor · the armor · the armor of Achilles · arms made by Hephaestus · goodly armor · helmet, breastplate, and greaves · his gleaming helmet · his own arms · his wondrous shield · that hateful armor
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Iliad (Greek) · Orations (Greek)
The ships rang again with the cry which the Achaeans raised, and when the Trojans saw the brave son of Menoitios and his squire [ therapôn] all gleaming in their armor, they were daunted and their battalions were thrown into confusion, for they thought the fleet son of Peleus must now have put aside his anger, and have been reconciled to Agamemnon;
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Iliad
The set of divine armor -- shield, breastplate, helmet, and greaves -- made by Hephaistos to replace what Hektor took.
aye, and Hektor when he had killed him stripped the wondrous armor, so glorious to behold, which the gods gave to Peleus when they laid you in the couch of a mortal man.
tomorrow at break of day I shall be here, and will bring you goodly armor from King Hephaistos.
Lastly, when the famed lame god had made all the armor, he took it and set it before the mother of Achilles;
Orations
The armor of Achilles, contested and transferred across the narrative.
and there being no arms, but Hector having them—for here one true thing said escaped him—he says Thetis brought from heaven the arms made by Hephaestus;
And these things being so, not having how to hide the truth, he says that it was Patroclus who came out with the Myrmidons, having put on the arms of Achilles, and that this man died by Hector, and that Hector thus won the arms.
And so, somewhat despising Patroclus and distrusting him, he entrusted to him his force and his own arms and his horses—as one would take the worst counsel about his own affairs, wishing to destroy everything—then prayed to Zeus that Patroclus return with all the arms and his companions, so witlessly sending him against a stronger man, whom, challenging the best, none wished to face,