IL TENDINE DI ACHILLE ED ILTALLONE DI ACHILLE

Abstract

A widespread inaccuracy still exists concerning the relation between the heel-and the strongest tendon in the human body-and the name of demigod Achilles, the hero of Homer's Iliad. His mother, the Nereid Thetis, who wanted to immortalize him; only the heel by whtch she held him was left rulnerable. The meaning of Achilles tendon is rather different; the corpse of the Trojan hero Hector was secured, through the strongest tendon in his body, to Achilles'chariot and then dragged around the city walls.