Hector

Apollo confronts him and injures Patroclus enough to where he enables Hector to kill him. This was all due to the fact that it was not Patroclus’s fate to bring down Troy. Another example occurs when Zeus jokes with Athena that he will spare Hector from Achilles, and she rebukes him, saying it had long been Hectors fate to die at the hand of Achilles. This passage demonstrates that the Gods enjoy toying with men. Hector himself knows he cannot control his fate, saying to Andromache, his wife…

someone else’s grief, which allows him to give Hectors body to his father. Here we see that Achilles character is able to change. For the first time in the Iliad, we see that Achilles forgets about his fate and pride to show someone else respect. At the end of the poem, we see that Achilles has gone through a lot and we become aware of what he has been through and come to understand the reason for his actions, for instance abusing the body of Hector. It was already known that the Greek would…

said that Hector was fated to die no matter what choice he made. Hector was a mighty Trojan leader. During the war, Hector returned home and asked all the women to pray to Athena for the men fighting in the war. While he was home, he went to get Paris with the agenda to bring him back to the battlefield to fight. Once he arrived home, he realized his wife, Andromache, and son, Astyanax were not there. The house keeper explained to Hector that his wife went to search for him. When Hector…

The Iliad by Homer depicts a destructive war between the Achaeans and the Trojans as a criticism to the collective social norms and tradition that war promotes. Throughout the epic, the idea of war is championed by the both the Achaeans and the Trojan as the most formidable form of solving their dispute. However, this form of problem solving involves a social-Darwinian scenario where the strongest survive, while those who survive the war receive honor and praise from their people. Nevertheless,…

but to kill hector and to leave him there to be eaten by the dogs and birds. He went to kill Hector and nothing was going to change his mind he was ready and very prepared. He had his reasons for wanting to kill Hector and Hector knew that. My thoughts were that Achilles had been holding onto this feeling for a very long time which made him hate Hector more and more over time. His hate grew so fast and he was holding it in for so long that when it came time Hector didn’t…

depicts hector preparing for battle with Achilles. While he is taking off his armor he is then killed while he is unarmed. The imagery of ‘goodly armor’, or armor with lavish décor, is symbolic of wealth and power hiding the corruption of the state that he was fighting for. All along hector had the lust for power and valor, not justice. He was fighting in a war on behalf of his brothers for reasons he initially opposed to, but then was seduced into as soon as they questioned his honor. Hector…

An epic, according to Aristotle is a poetic story displaying both tragedy and success with a topic that is "lofty and grand". Out of Achilles and Hector, the two great heroes of the Trojan War, Hector ranks superior, establishing more characteristics of an epic hero including kairos, the instinct of knowing when and what to do in the face of fear. Hector is first acknowledged as a noble and responsible leader when he stays by his brother's side through poor judgement of stealing Helen, the…

eventually affect they way future things pan out. It is no different in a literary sense, in The Iliad you have a Trojan soldier named Hector who did not want to fight in the Trojan war. Hector decides to fight, but only for honor. “I have learned to be one of the best, to fight in Troy 's first ranks, defending my father 's honor and my own” (6. 466-469). Hector 's choice to fight in the Trojan war, even though he was opposed to it, ultimately leads to his death. Achilles is a soldier in the…

The Epic Hero Achilles Son of Peleus and Thetis was the future talented hero named Achilles. Hector was the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. These two heroes Achilles of Greece and Hector of Troy became great warriors and were admired by almost everyone in their region. Both of them have epic hero characteristics, however Achilles is a greater epic hero because he is glorified by the Greeks, he has superior fighting skills compared to the average warrior, he is also a responsible leader.…

Hector is outside the Gates of Troy waiting to fight Achilles. In Book XXII line 91-99 Priam is trying to convince Hector not to fight Achilles alone “Hector, my child, if ever I’ve smoothed you…Dogs will eat your body by the Greeks ships”. Hector himself has pride issues with facing Achilles he knows he will die. Even when Achilles arrived, Hector tries to make a pact with him in lines 277-285 Hector said “I’m not running anymore, Achilles…Only strip…