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Originally Posted by issybird
I know Achilles gets wounded later in the book. Perhaps his death from a wound to his heel gave rise to the myth?
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Issybird you might want to look at this chapter from Quintius Smyrnaeus' The Fall Of Troy. Even though in this account he is shot in the ankle by Apollo instead of Paris as in other accounts, it is possible that this might have given rise to Achilles being killed by being shot in the heel.
When you get a chance you might want to read the entire poem. As far as I know, it is our only extant literary work that gives a connected account of the events of the Trojan War between the death of Hector and the departure of the Greeks for home after they sacked troy.
Many scholars date his writing sometime in the 4th century A.D.
http://omacl.org/Troy/book3.html