Achilles

Son of Peleus and the sea-goddess Thetis, the best of the Achaeans at Troy and the subject of the Iliad's wrath; he chose a short life with imperishable renown, killed Hector to avenge Patroclus, and fell to Paris and Apollo at the Scaean gate. In Hades he says he would rather be a living serf; Pindar puts him on the island of the blessed.