Chapter Six - Achilles

Achilles was the best fighter of the Greeks besieging Troy in the Trojan War.  His mother was Thetis, who was a sea nymph.
Thetis attempted to protect Achilles as an infant by dipping him in the River Styx.  The waters rendered Achilles skin impervious to the likes of any mere Trojan arrow.  However, Thetis forgot that she was holding him by the heel during the dipping process.
Achilles had slain the Trojan hero Hector in single combat.  But, the god Apollo guided the arrow of Hector's brother, Paris, to his heel.  That’s why one of the tendons in our heel is called the Achilles tendon.

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