Achilles Come Down

Achilles Come Down is a song released in 2017 by the Australian band Gang of Youths written by band member David Le'aupepe. The song is inspired by the Greek hero Achilles and references the moment when Achilles stands on the walls of Troy. Rather than retelling the myth directly, the song uses Achilles as a symbol to explore feelings such as fear, pressure, grief, and suicide. This piece demonstrates how the story of Achilles continues to influence modern music and storytelling and how people continue to resonate with Achilles’s story all these millennia later.