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Achillean (comparative more Achillean, superlative most Achillean)
- Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad.
- 1995, Eric Scott Mallin, Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England, →ISBN:
- 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.
- Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall.
- Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason.
- Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer.
- 2004, Helen Morales, Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, →ISBN:
- 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.
- Pertaining to the Achilles tendon.
- 1901, The Medical Examiner and General Practitioner:
- The Achillean reflex is the contraction obtained in the gastrocnemii and solei by the percussion of the tendo Achillis.
- 2015, Yasser El Miedany, Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography in Rheumatic Diseases, →ISBN, page 371:
- The posterior compartment contains the Achille's tendon, the deep pre-Achillean and superficial retro-Achillean bursae, and the posterior aspect of the talo-calcaneal joint.
- Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus.
- 1995, Gay Wilson Allen & Ed Folsom, Walt Whitman & the World, →ISBN, page 254:
- Thus, he exalts as a means of republican cohesion, as the unshakeable basis of the modern nation what he calls "manly love," a sort of Achillean friendship, but at the same time it is this love, this passionate friendship that he sings.
- 2007, Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, & Pat Wheatley, Alexander's Empire: Formulation to Decay, page 87:
- For Theocritus Idyll 29.34 the sexual love between Achilles and Patroclus was so uncontroversial that it could be referred to in a pederastic poem by means of the shorthand "Achillean friends".
名詞
Achillean (複数形 Achilleans)
- A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean.
- 1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The History of Don Quixote of la Mancha, page 453:
- [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?"
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