achillean

Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.

Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has offered salutary warnings against seeing in male homosexuality a simple "epitome, ... The two genres of homosocial behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric, Hectoresque or Achillean: the first is active, specular, militant, conservative, apparently (not really) heterosexually inflected; the other is listless, covert, pacifistic, and passively subversive, clearly (not entirely) homosexually inclined.

Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.

Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.

Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.

There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia.

We are once again reaching a period in our collective cultural history when we may resume the post-Platonic, Achillean conversation.

Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.

Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered.

The Achillean reflex is the contraction obtained in the gastrocnemii and solei by the percussion of the tendo Achillis.

A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean.

[A] singular genius, whose mathematical studies gave him in his own day the reputation of a necromancer, espousing fervently the cause of Hector, called out in a voice of thunder, "Let us see whether the Achilleans can fight as well as speak?"

Even the romantic and glorious vision of this war is mostly rhetoric because the cunning Ulysses with the Achilleans invented the successful stratagem of the horse for committing great evils with the destruction of the city, ...