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ACHILLES’ HEEL VS АХИЛЛЕСОВА ПЯТА (COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL, LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY ANALYSIS OF THE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNIT)
- Authors: Grishina L.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Issue: No 8(889) (2024)
- Pages: 144-150
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2542-2197/article/view/298737
- ID: 298737
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Abstract
The article analyses the origin of the expressions Achilles’ heel in the English language and the corresponding Russian phrase ахиллесова пята in an attempt to find the reasons which led to the current etymological difference in the words of the onomastic idiom born from the same myth.
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Lubov Viktorovna Grishina
Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
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Email: lgrishina@inbox.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor at the Department of the English Language Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Russian FederationReferences
- Legendy i skazania Drevney Gretsii I Drevnego Rima (1987) = Legends and Folk Tales of Ancient Greece and Rome. Compiled by A. A. Neihard. Moscow: Pravda. (In Russ.)
- Klein, L. S. (1998). Anatomia Iliady = The Anatomy of the Iliad. St.Petersburg: St.Petersburg University Press. (In Russ.)
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