Editing Achilles (section)

=== Physical description ===
In Homer's ''Iliad'', Achilles is portrayed as tall and striking, with strength and looks that were unmatched among the Greek warriors.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Strauss |first=Barry |url= |title=The Trojan War: A New History |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7432-6442-6 |pages=87 |language=en}}</ref> Homer describes him as having long hair or a mane ({{lang|grc|χαίτη}}).<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+23.141&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133 23.141] (in Greek)</ref><ref>{{LSJ|xai/th|χαίτη|ref}}</ref> Along with some other characters, his hair is described with the word ''xanthḗ'' ({{lang|grc|ξανθή}}),<ref name="Myres">Myres, John Linton (1967). ''Who were the Greeks?'', pp. 192–199. University of California Press.</ref> which meant 'yellow' and was used for light hair, including [[blond]], [[Brown hair|brown]], [[Tawny (color)|tawny]] (light brown) and [[Auburn hair|auburn]].<ref>{{LSJ|canqo/s|ξανθός|ref}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Woodhouse |first=Sidney Chawner |title=English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited |year=1910 |location=London |pages=52,84,101}}</ref> A later Latin account, probably from the fifth century&nbsp;CE, [[Pseudepigrapha|falsely attributed]] to [[Dares Phrygius]] described Achilles as having "... a large chest, a fine mouth, and powerfully formed arms and legs. His head was covered with long wavy chestnut-colored hair (''capillo myrteo'', color of [[myrtus]] bark or [[myrrh]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Navarro Antolín |first1=Fernando |title=Lygdamus: Corpus Tibullianum III. 1-6: Lygdami Elegiarum Liber : Edition and Commentary |date=1996 |publisher=E.J. Brill |location=Belgium |page=309}}</ref>). Though mild in manner, he was very fierce in battle. His face showed the joy of a man richly endowed."<ref>[[Dares Phrygius]], ''History of the Fall of Troy'' [https://www.theoi.com/Text/DaresPhrygius.html 13]</ref>