How Do Mice Communicate?

Stroke: "The Achilles heel of today



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DRAE, the Achilles heel is the vulnerable or weak something or someone. For example: "This executive would be unbelievable, if his Achilles heel was not drinking" or "The Achilles heel of this football club is the weakness of his defense." Like so many other lines discussed in this section, we must go back to antiquity in order to explain the origin of the phrase. And once again we have to draw on Greek mythology, so rich in traditional tales. The legend says that Achilles Achilles was the fruit of the union of Thetis, a sea nymph, and Peleus, King of the Myrmidons of Thessaly. When he was just a baby, Achilles was dipped by his mother in the waters of the Styx, a legendary river, which was the limit between the earth and the world of the dead, who allegedly crossed the water by boat to enter Hades (underworld of the dead). According to legend, the Styx had the power to become immortal all those who bathed in its waters. Thetis wanted to take the supernatural properties of the river to make his son invulnerable to injury and fatal diseases and stop the passage of time. But Thetis made a mistake. By submerging the small miracle Achilles in those waters, he did holding the baby by the leg. Thus, those waters became invulnerable all body parts except their Achilles heel part for which his mother held him bound. Achilles grew up to be a great hero and one of the best and bravest warriors of all time. Participated in major battles and the Trojan War as an ally of the Greeks. When Agamemnon, king of Maecenas and one of the leaders who fought against Troy, it appropriates the captive maiden Briseis, which Achilles was in love, it withdraws its troops from the war. The Trojans, emboldened by the absence of the immortal hero, the Greeks attacked and forced to retreat as hastily as humiliating. Patroclus, Achilles' friend and colleague, asks him to lend his armor and let him proceed with the Myrmidons into battle. Achilles agrees, but his friend is killed victim by the sword the Trojan prince Hector. Achilles then decided to resume the battle. In a test of strength, challenges and Achilles kills Hector and drags his lifeless body triumphant, tied to his chariot around the walls of Troy. Subsequently, the Trojan prince Paris, abductor of Helen caused the Trojan War, gets to know the secret of the vulnerability of Achilles. As had been predicted before the end of Hector, Paris does kill Achilles by shooting, with a great shot, a poisoned arrow to his heel. Achilles bones were mixed with those of Patroclus and gave them the honor they deserved as heroes in a lavish funeral games (which more or less equivalent to the Olympic Games of the time). At the end of the war, Paris dies pierced by an arrow shot by the famous archer Philoctetes, who was using the legendary bow of Hercules.
Source: "The reason for such" by Ana Beatriz Ariza Núñez.