Cuts Like A Knife - ph: Hugh Lippe
Hugh Lippe photographed Tyler Riggs for Contributing Editor on Friday October 2nd at 5:30pm. The entire series can be seen at contributingeditor.blogspot.com I love how strong Tyler looks in the series - however the light on his torso highlights his rib cage, illuminating his vulnerability, like Achilles. In Greek mythology , Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War , the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer 's Iliad . Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy . Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel . Since he died due to a poisoned arrow shot into his heel, the " Achilles' heel " has come to mean a person's principal weakness. According to a fragment of an Achilleis— the Achilleid , written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles was born Thetis tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx . However, he was left vulnerable at the pa...