The
Achilleid is an
unfinished epic poem by
Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of
Achilles from his youth through his death at
Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127
dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account of the hero's early life with
Chiron the
centaur, and an episode in which his mother
Thetis disguised him as a girl on the island of Scyros before he joined the Greek expedition against Troy.