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Man in reconstruction of Mycenean-era (Greece) bronze armor (lemmy.world)
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[–] modeler@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

It's suggested that the term "Achilles' heel", meaning a seemingly insignificant point of fatal weakness, comes from exactly your observation of the Dendra Panoply, an armour of exactly the same period as Achilles and the Trojan War.