Editing Polyxena (section)

==Myth==
Polyxena is considered the Trojan version of [[Iphigenia]], daughter of [[Agamemnon]] and [[Clytemnestra]]. She is not in [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', appearing in works by later poets. An [[oracle]] prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Polyxena's brother, Prince [[Troilus]], reached the age of twenty.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} During the [[Trojan War]], Polyxena and Troilus were ambushed when they were attempting to fetch water from a fountain, and Troilus was killed by the Greek warrior [[Achilles]], who soon became interested in the quiet sagacity of Polyxena.<ref name="Hall, 249; Aghion et al, 242">Hall, 249; Aghion et al, 242</ref>

Achilles, still recovering from [[Patroclus]]' death, found Polyxena's words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of [[Apollo]] to meet her after her devotions. Achilles seemed to trust Polyxena—he told her of his only vulnerability: his vulnerable heel. {{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} It was later in the temple of Apollo that Polyxena's brothers, [[Paris (mythology)|Paris]] and [[Deiphobus]], ambushed Achilles and shot him in the heel with an arrow steeped in poison; one supposedly guided by the hand of Apollo himself.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}