He visited the plain of Troy and on 3 May, while Hobhouse read Ovid's Hero and Leander, imitated Leander's feat of swimming the Hellespont; within a week, lines "Written After Swimming from Sestos to Abydos" commemorated his pride in this exploit. During the two months he spent in ...
Hector. Achilles was struck through the back of his heel, the weakest point on his body, and became the reason for why we today call the back of a heel, an Achilles Tendon.
This is particularly so in the case of temples where each building appears to have been designed as a sculptural entity within the landscape, most often raised on high ground so that the elegance of its proportions and the effects of light on its surfaces might be viewed from all angles. Ni...