Armor of Achilles
object · 3 works · 7 mentions · 22 anchored passages
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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2 expressionsAchilles' armor3 mentions
Iliad (Greek) · Orations (Greek)
As he spoke Patroklos put on his armor.
The armor of Achilles1 mention
Iliad (Greek)
It is enough that he should have the armor over which he vaunts so vainly.
in the texts
Iliad
The set of divine armor -- shield, breastplate, helmet, and greaves -- made by Hephaistos to replace what Hektor took.
tomorrow at break of day I shall be here, and will bring you goodly armor from King Hephaistos.
He made helmet, close fitting to the brow, and richly worked, with a golden plume overhanging it;
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;
so that it is unclear to no one, even of those having little sense, that Patroclus is well-nigh a substitute, and Homer exchanged this man for Achilles, wishing to hide what concerns him.
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.
Odyssey
The armor of the dead Achilles, offered by Thetis as a prize and awarded to Odysseus over Ajax, precipitating Ajax's death.
but the psukhê of Ajax son of Telamon alone held aloof - still angry with me for having won the cause in our dispute about the armor of Achilles.