Multiple choice general knowledge history

Which hero was stated as invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel?

  1. Jason

  2. Ajax

  3. Theseus

  4. Achilles
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Explanation

Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Trojan War, was dipped in the River Styx by his mother Thetis to make him invulnerable, but she held him by his heel, leaving that one spot unprotected, the origin of 'Achilles' heel' as a metaphor for a fatal weakness.

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