Achilles (son of Zeus)

In the attested late/minor Greek tradition summarized in modern reference works, Akhilleus is named as a son of Zeus and Lamia. The surviving anecdote presents him as a man of irresistible beauty who won a beauty contest judged by the rustic god Pan. Aphrodite, irritated by the judgment (the sources leave ambiguous whether she was a mere spectator or a defeated contestant), retaliated: she made Pan fall in love with the nymph Echo and caused Akhilleus to become as ugly and unattractive as he had been pretty and attractive. The episode is transmitted as a minor myth and is explicitly distinguished in the sources from the more famous Iliadic Achilles; the account is summarized in modern compilations of Greek myth (see cited sources).

The only surviving descriptive detail in the recorded anecdote is that Akhilleus was "a man of an irresistible beauty" and that, after Aphrodite's intervention, he "became as ugly and unattractive as he had been pretty and attractive." No further physical characteristics (height, clothing, age, or other marks) are recorded in the available summary of this minor myth.

No superhuman powers, martial feats, or cultic functions are ascribed to this Akhilleus in the surviving account; he functions in the tale chiefly as an exceptionally beautiful mortal whose appearance affects the attitudes and actions of gods. His beauty is causally efficacious within the anecdote—winning Pan's judgment and provoking Aphrodite's punitive reversal—but the sources do not record independent supernatural abilities or ongoing powers.