We do love some open access myth-busting about Achilles’ vulnerable anatomy in BICS.🦵 “Yet the absence of any clear evidence for a specifically vulnerable heel in ancient sources has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention. Roman sources…allude to a different anatomical region: the ankle.”
ABSTRACT. The myth of Achilles’ imperfect invulnerability, according to which his heel constituted his only weak point, is one of the best-known narratives
