Hector Feliciano

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Troy. Hector finds Andromache cradling his child, and prays to the gods that he lives a successful and fulfilling life. The meaning of this seemingly innocent scene is that it is portrayed amidst the bloodshed and brutality of the Iliad. Specifically, the poet places special focus on the themes of honour, family, war, and innocence. Homer utilizes the epithet “glorious Hector” to exemplify the warrior’s honour, which directly relates to the preceding moment in which Andromache pleads Hector to…

In The Iliad, Hektor and Achilleus both follow the warrior code, just in different manners. Hektor feels that if he does not fight he is being selfish, he is letting down his fellow warriors, and that he is dishonoring himself. “yet I would feel deep shame / before the Trojans, and the Trojan women with trailing garments, / if like a coward I were to shrink aside from fighting.” (117-119 Book 6). He feels as if he needs to fight for his people, making him unselfish. Achilleus on the other hand…

a man will die for that sake. In the sixth book of the Iliad, Homer portrays Hector and Andromache to be an affectionate couple but also depicts both characters to have incompatible values. Andromache, having lost her immediate family in the war under the hands of Achilles, fears her glorious husband will be next. As much as Andromache supports Hector, she disagrees with his behaviors, “Possessed is what you are, Hector. Your courage is going to kill you, and you have no feeling left for your…

Achilles is a great hero and shows many triats such as bravery and courage, Hector has had to work for everything in his life and done better than Achilles. Achilles was the greatest and best Greek hero at the Battle of Troy and possibly in all of Greek history. He fought and died at the Battle of Troy, but help cosiderably in the Trojan defeat killing Hector and was like a God amongst men as he was near invinvible. Hector is hero and the defender of Troy. He was a great warrior and general and…

The Hero Epic is thought of to be one of the worlds first if not the first ever written form of a story. Filled with excitement, war, terror and extreme character change these stories have everything needed for a successfully plot even on todays standards. The Two famous stories The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad will be compared mainly in terms of their main characters; Gilgamesh and Achilles. Initially giving background information on the texts themselves and then…

Comparing the archaeological evidence that has been unearthed in the last 145 years in Turkey, Greece, and the Aegean to Homer’s Iliad will show that at some time in the Late Bronze Age a war or series of wars took place between Achaean forces and Troy. It was called the Trojan War. This war has defined the way people view ancient Greece. This story of mythological gods and heroic warriors has provided insight into the attitudes, customs, religion, and warfare of the ancient Greeks. The story of…

The epic The Iliad by Homer, is set during the last year of the Trojan War and recounts the battles and epic retelling of the end of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles and Hector are known as the greatest warriors of the Greeks and Trojans, respectively. This places both warriors against each other and predicts direct conflict between both of them. As both are such great warriors they are quite similar, however there are also major differences between them. These major…

“The WAR That KILLED ACHILLES” was written by Caroline Alexander. It is the hidden truth of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War. The author, Caroline Alexander explained about some of the important incidents happened in the Trojan War. Although there are several characters in this book, the main characters are Achilles (a great Greek hero), Patroklos (Achilles’ best friend), Hektor (a great Trojan hero), Priam (Hektor’s Father and the King of Troy), and Agamemnon (the Commander of the united Greek…

The title of the work is The Iliad. Type: The Iliad is an epic. Author: The name of the author is Homer. Theme: The central idea of the epic is Rage. In the beginning of the work the character, Achilles, is said to be the reason why many Greeks died during war. In the epic poem, it says that Achilles allowed his rage to control his thinking, which resulted in him removing himself from the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Continuing throughout the work Achilles continued to allow his…