The Dispute over the Arms of Achilles

Hyginus - Fabulae
The Dispute over the armour of Achilles

After the burial of Hector, Achilles stalked around the walls of Troy boasting that he would storm them on his own. The angry Apollo took on the appearance of Alexander Paris and shot him with an arrow in the heel (which was said to be his only mortal part), killing him.

After the death and burial of Achilles, Telamonian Ajax, who was his cousin, petitioned the Greeks to award the arms of Achilles to him.

Denied to him by the anger of Athene, the arms were given to Odysseus by Agamemnon and Menelaos.

Ajax, driven out of his mind, wreaked his revenge on his domestic animals, and then threw himself on the same sword which Hector had presented to him when they fought their duel.