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In the trojan war what exactly happened after the death of achilles best friend????????


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Shortly after the burial of Hector, Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons, arrived with her warriors.[107] Penthesilea, daughter of Otrere and Ares, had accidentally killed her sister Hippolyte. She was purified from this action by Priam,[108] and in exchange she fought for him and killed many, including Machaon[109] (according to Pausanias, Machaon was killed by Eurypylus),[110] and according to another version, Achilles himself, who was resurrected at the request of Thetis.[111] Penthesilia was then killed by Achilles[112] who fell in love with her beauty after her death. Thersites, a simple soldier and the ugliest Achaean, taunted Achilles over his love[109] and gouged out Penthesilea's eyes.[113] Achilles slew Thersites, and after a dispute sailed to Lesbos, where he was purified for his murder by Odysseus after sacrificing to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto.[112]

While they were away, Memnon of Ethiopia, son of Tithonus and Eos,[114] came with his host to help his stepbrother Priam.[115] He did not come directly from Ethiopia, but either from Susa in Persia, conquering all the peoples in between,[116] or from the Caucasus, leading an army of Ethiopians and Indians.[117] Like Achilles, he wore armor made by Hephaestus.[118] In the ensuing battle, Memnon killed Antilochus, who took one of Memnon's blows to save his father Nestor.[119] Achilles and Memnon then fought. Zeus weighed the fate of the two heroes; the weight containing that of Memnon sank,[120] and he was slain by Achilles.[112][121] Achilles chased the Trojans to their city, which he entered. The gods, seeing that he had killed too many of their children, decided that it was his time to die. He was killed after Paris shot a poisoned arrow that was guided by Apollo.[112][122][123] In another version he was killed by a knife to the back (or heel) by Paris, while marrying Polyxena, daughter of Priam, in the temple of Thymbraean Apollo,[124] the site where he had earlier killed Troilus. Both versions conspicuously deny the killer any sort of valour, saying Achilles remained undefeated on the battlefield. His bones were mingled with those of Patroclus, and funeral games were held.[125] Like Ajax, he is represented as living after his death in the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube River,[126] where he is married to Helen.[127]