Croatian scientific society for the history of health culture
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\u27s 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\u27chariot
and then dragged around the city
walls
