Achilles vs Superman

                      Achilles vs Superman             Jayson C. Pamplona    We’ve doubtless all heard the phrase ‘Achilles heel’. It is used to refer to an otherwise strong person’s one weak spot and references a story from Greek mythology concerning the great hero Achilles. Here’s a brief summary of the Achilles story: The goddess Thetis conceived Achilles with Peleus, King of Phthia. To make her son invincible and invulnerable, Thetis dipped her young son in the River Styx, the river of the Underworld. The only part of Achilles’ body which remained vulnerable was his heel: because Thetis was holding the infant boy by that part of his body, it wasn’t submerged in those magic waters. So, Achilles was invulnerable in battle – but his heel remained vulnerable to attack. The first great epic poem in Western literature, Homer’s  Iliad , concerns the Trojan War between the Greeks (although th...