Achilles can ski?

[Envous]

Watched Troy last night and it made me think...

 

[SFB]

no

 

[.frenchy]

hahahaha cork 0 to shiv.

 

[Wallisch_pl]

is it cork or...quork?

 

[GIF]

Achilles was a skilled water skier growing up as a young Mycenaean, at an early age he was actually able to barefoot waterski with the power of his pet dolphin pert.

 

[LoathesRaisins]

 

[No.Quarter]

Mycenaeans aren't supposed to be fucking blonde. stupid hollywood

 

[GIF]

Yeah what the fuck is that? Hollywood always fucks up there history. The lionsgate should have been on the outside of the building not the inside

 

[No.Quarter]

Yeah, and Achilles was gay with his cousin.

 

[brotherdad]

What's this?

Why it's a pirate thread off the port bow!

 

[--ski--]

Well, there is actually more evidence to support Achilles being blonde rather than dark haired. In the Iliad, Achilles' hair is described as golden/blonde or fair. Furthermore, many gods and goddesses, especially Demeter and Aphrodite, were depicted as having blonde/golden hair and blue/bright eyes; they were two characteristics that usually accompanied each other. Achilles is described as being bright-eyed in The Iliad, so it's safe to assume he probably had blonde/golden hair. Now, because Aphrodite was blonde and the goddess of love of beauty, blonde/golden hair was considered beautiful and a blessing from the gods, Greeks used saffron and mud to dye their hair a lighter colour. Because Achilles was both beautiful and divine, golden/blonde hair is probably the fairest representation of him.