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Achilles searches for Briseis, who is was in Agamemnon hands. She kills him with a knife, and is saved by Achilles from being stabbed by Agamemnon's. Paris finds Achilles and shoots an arrow straight through Achilles' fatal weakness, his heel.
Achilles tells Briseis, who was crying to leave the city with Paris. Briseis refuses but she is taken by Paris towards the secret passageway. Achilles watches them leave, then he collapses with the arrow in his heel.
The surviving Trojan soldiers have a last weak attempt to repel the invaders, but thei are defeated and the Greeks burst all together in the city and find Achilles dead. They perform the funeral rituals, the next morning.
The last words belong to Odysseus:
"If they ever tell my story, let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say that I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles...."
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Troy after Hector -
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