Those special troops mentioned in the Iliad were called Myrmidons.
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The Myrmidons.
Achilles was king of the Myrmidons, a people who excelled at warfare. The myrmidons were one of the inspirations for Lycurgus the Lawgiver when he reformed Spartan society.
Achilles's name means "the grief of the people."
Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of the myrmidons, and Thetis.
The legened is that when Achilles was fighting in the Trojan war he was hit by a bow and arrow and it killed him because when he was little he was dipped in a special river and the only part that that was not dipped was his Achilles heel