The Iliad, one of Homer's most famous works, depicts two of the greatest warriors to ever live, Hector and Achilles. Both Hector and Achilles have features unique to themselves but they also share some of the same things. Over the course of the epic Hector and Achilles are developed to be some of the most important characters in all of ancient literature. In some ways they are both the same ... , but their distinct differences really separate them from being anywhere near the same person. This is shown mostly in the way that Hector is more of a family man and cares for everyone while Achilles ...

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... , "Fight for your country-that is the best, the only omen!" (12.281). Even Patroclus, suited in Achilles armor, does not phase Hector, but rather intrigues Hector and causes him to stay and fight with the one whom he thought was Achilles. Homer believes that Hector is a true leader who can encourage his troops by not only his words, but also his actions, which portray ... perfect. Homer chooses to give the reader a fuller perspective of Hector, revealing some of his flaws and weaknesses. Certainly Hector's killing of Patroclus in Achilles' armor was a great feat for him personally as wel...

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Achilles and Hector are the two main characters of the Iliad written by Homer. It has been told more often than not that our hero in this epic poem is Achilles the great Achaean and the fierce Trojan Hector as the enemy. They were very renowned fighters for their armies; these two warriors were similar in a few ways, but mostly very different. According to the definition of ... a modern day hero that I present, it shows that Hector shall be the hero and Achilles not as so. A modern day hero is someone who is honest, loyal, and respectable. A hero is someone who puts others before himself. He ...

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... battle with Achilles. Hector's overestimation of his powers leads him loose the heroic balance and he fails to step out of the battle when it's necessary. Hector had a chance to save himself and stay within the walls of Troy but instead he chose to face godlike Achilles alone himself. He ignored his fathers and mothers plea who warned him that he is not equal to Achilles and will be ... killed by Achilles' hands. When he finally meets ... Achilles, he stands deluded by a dream of invisibility. He ... ...

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... fight, it simply just redirected his anger from Agamemnon towards Hector, which was who killed Patroclus. Achilles mourns from the death of Patroclus, but his anger is only put on hold. He quickly avenges Patroclus" death by killing Hector and brutally dragging his body for display throughout the Achaean camp. Another change in heart is noted when King Priam tearfully requests for the body ... of his son back. Achilles is deeply moved and returns the body to King Priam so that Hector may receive a hero's burial. Achilles" personality seams altered, yet he still has the potential to be l...

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... cannot put aside his pride. Patroclus then takes matters into his own hands and joins in the battle on Achilles" behalf. Although Patroclus heroically kills many enemies, his armor falls off and a soldier pierces him with a javelin. Hector then completes the murder of Patroclus by jabbing a spear into his abdomen. Achilles is so distraught by the death of his friend that he decides to avenge ... his friend and join in the war, partly to punish himself as well as to punish the Trojans. After killing Hector, Achilles denies Hector's request that his dead body be respected and drags him be...

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... Helen away to Troy, which results in war. The movie shows many individuals' characteristics, such as the good and moral prince of Troy, Hector, or the greedy and powerful King of Mycenae, Agamemnon. However the most famous character that the director tries to describe is Achilles, the greatest warrior in Greece. Wolfgang Petersen, the director, portrays him based on the Greek heroism. At the ... hero manual with his Hollywood style adaptation. As a result, Achilles became not the ruthless hero who competes with gods and goddess but a muscular romanticist. Achilles is depicted as a vulne...

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... his troops because of a dispute with his commander, Agamemnon. Achilles brutally kills his enemies, and disrespects the body of King Hector, whom he killed as well. Achilles seems to show some reason after his friend Patrolocus is killed; he ends his disagreement with Agamemnon, and fighting King Hector, the person that killed Patrolocus. But, after Achilles kills Hector, he dishonors his body, dragging it behind his chariot. Aeneas ... the books also both end in death, as the protagonist ends up killing another person. In The Aeneid, Aeneas kills Turnus, and in The Iliad, Achilles kill...

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... , 12). The Iliad was the story of the wrath of Achilles. With the quarrel with Agamemnon it began, and with the close of the disastrous consequences it ends. The character of Achilles is the cause of all that happens to himself, to the other Achians, to the Trojans, and particularly to Hector (Bowra, 193). Achilles is the reason for all of the destruction in the tenth ... year whether he was in or out of the war. The wrath originated in a quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles. Both of these figures were problematic. Agamemnon was king of kings, dominant by virtue ... in Odysseus" speec...

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... battle reaches his own ships. (1. 335-342). As the Achaians" losses mount, Agamemnon sends Odysseus to persuade Achilles to help. Once again, it is Achilles pride that stops him from accepting Agamemnon's offering and joining the battle. Although he states other reasons - that he was truly in love with Briseis (9. 341-343 ... the injured Machaon driven past his ship. " now I think the Achaians will come to my knee and stay there in supplication, for a need past endurance has come to them" (11. 608-609). Achilles makes it clear that it is not his fear of death that is stopping him from fig...

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... be blamed for our actions because the gods are always there creating scenarios to effect a particular outcome. The gods have a vested interested in our decisions. Another challenge for both Agamemnon and Hector is the flaw in believing their gods will act in direct proportion to their level of reverence or "favor. " This seems like a conflict of interest because Zeus clearly stated that ... to the spoils of war even though no one fought harder and more skillfully than he did. Achilleus sought to make Agamemnon realize this and he did but Agamemnon's pride was too great to make proper am...

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... take back to Greece as slaves. Hecuba, wife of Priam, was among the reluctent slaves to go. She was found clinging to her sons Hector's and Paris" graves and had to be dragged off to the ship by Ulysses. Hecuba's youngest son, Polydorus, however had been secretly sent by his father to be ... to Thrace to be spared of the cruel fate of his other siblings who were now dead. It was there that he was to be watched for and protected under the trusted Thracian king, Polymestor. When Polymestor, however, learned of Troy's fall, he cruelly murdered Polydorus for the large fortune of gold ... o...

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... cruelty or injustice on the battlefield. Before Achilles and Hector begin to fight Hector asks Achilles that if he is killed will Achilles send his body back to Troy for a proper burial. Achilles is in such a fit of rage that he denies Hector of his last wish and begins fighting. The battle between Achilles and Hector ends with Achilles claiming victory. Upon defeating Hector he attaches his body to the back of ... his chariot and rides around the city of Troy with Hector's body dragging along ... behind him. Achilles continues to ride around Troy three times ... ...

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... and Hector, which is broken up before its end. The two sides retreat, and the Achaians build a wall around their encampment to protect their position and their ships. When fighting resumes, Zeus pushes the Trojans to great triumph over the Achaians, and their victory sseems certain. At this point, Agamemnon calls his leaders together and admits he was at fault in taking Briseis from Achilles. ... champion of the Achaians is Aias. Hector then leads a strong attack by the Trojans, and they manage to break through the Achaian wall and fight all the way to the ships. As the Trojans attempt to...

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... honor this bond of friendship. As signs of their friendship, they promise to avoid each other on the battlefield, and they exchange armor. This reconciliation between enemies foreshadows the reconciliation that will take place between Achilles and Priam in Book XXIV. In Troy, Hector meets with his wife to discuss the arrangements for the sacrificial offering to the gods. He then goes to locate ... not fated by the gods at this point. Before decisively facing his Trojan rival, Achilles must prove himself against many other Trojan warriors, who are aided by their gods. In truth, Achilles'...

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... of the brutality of war. The plague was made because of a selfish Achilles. Other examples would be by the way Patroclus and Hector is killed. Apollo kills Patroclus because of his honor for Achilles. Hector is brutally killed by Achilles because of the death of his dear friend Patroclus. Hectors body was treated ... different ways of showing heroism. In the time of the Trojan War, there was an unwritten code of heroic conduct that the bravest warriors followed. Hector is a hero in his own way. Although he died in a very dreadful way, the Trojans all celebrated him as a great hero of th...

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... death of Patroklos because Agamemnon calls for battle on the Achaians. After he learns of his friends death he begins to show emotion. Achilles then calls for battle to get revenge for the death of Patroklos. Achilles then kills Hector and mistreats the corpse by dragging the body by his chariot around Patroklos" grave for nine days. The Gods preserve the corpse because they ... do not agree with the way he is treating Hector, finally Zues confronts Thetis, Achilles" mother, to have her reason with her son. Thetis begs her son to return Hector's body to Priam, he accepts the offer becau...

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... for the stolen woman. Only Patroclus' death is able to stir Achilles to fight. He proceeds to kill Hector, the mainstay of Troy and the slayer of Patroclus, and thereby chooses his own destiny: death at a young age, with undying fame. Achilles shows the greatest military skill of any of the Achaean ranks and has the greatest fighting ability of all of the warriors, Trojan or ... him to return to the fighting. Achilles' best friend and essential "soul-mate", Patroclus, is slain at the hands of the mighty Hector of Troy. Achilles is hence distraught at this happening and therefore goes to...

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... on both sides. Strauss felt that Hector's approach of always resorting to frontal offensive was wrong and caused many casualties. Strauss ridicules Homer's claim that gods intervene to help mortals. Strauss feels that sometimes it not a god that is behind everything. Chapter ten goes over the Achilles death and all that led to it and after it. Achilles kills Hector and according to Strauss is the point when ... Hector was no longer selfish and was a brave hero that died ... for his home. After this Achilles kills Penthesilea. He forces his way into troy where he meets his dead but late...

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... the Trojans. In the tenth year, Achilles wife was taken prisoner. Achilles then stopped fighting for the Greeks. But when a friend of Achilles was killed by the great Trojan warrior Hector, Achilles returned to end the life of Hector. Next, Paris tried to shoot Achilles in the back with an arrow, but he missed badly and stuck him in the heel. This killed Achilles immediately. Soon, Paris would get ... wounded in the war, and he died too. After the deaths of ... Achilles, the Greeks wanted to give up. Then, the king of ... ...

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... it to events in the Iliad is the ability for some characters to know fates and how they accept them. This makes for a great tragedy, and the reader has a sense of helplessness and despair while following the plot. In the Iliad, for example, Achilles and Hector both know the outcome of the war the entire time that they are battling yet continue to fight anyway. They ... are both told that Troy will fall and that they both will die. They accept their fates ... and do nothing to change the outcome, fighting for their honor and glory. In Agamemnon, Cassandra knows her fate ... ...

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... here that refused to join the battle against Troy and comrades. Achilles goes to war after the death of patrochus, who was killed by hector. Hector was leader of the Trojan forces. Standing tall half go-man, Achilles is more psychologically complex character than Gilgamesh. Achilles want to bring glory and fame to his tribe and himself, it was for personal gain, for the heroism. Heroism was important ... action to prove virtue and excellence to Greeks, even if it meant that while ... doing something heroic and it resulted in a bad death. There "ARETE" or ... ...

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... place. Each man has a family and a story behind his life and death. For Patroklos, however, life is cut short by his poor decisions and unyielding fury toward the Trojans. These, accompanied by his battle skills, greatly inferior to those of Achilles, cause Patroklos to disregard Achilles' warnings of what fate the battle might hold and attack Troy as well as Hector. If these decisions had not been ... made, Patroklos could have ridden beside Achilles in their sack of Troy. Thus, because ... of Patroklos' over-zealous and inferior battle decisions and behaviors, it is apparent that he i...

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... 's innocent. The wind started to blow and one thousand Greek ships set sail to Troy. The battle goes back and forth for ten years. During these ten years, Agamemnon took Briseis for himself. Achille was furious and refused to fight for Greek anymore. But when his friend Patroclus was killed by Hector, Achilles decided to return to the war and revenge for his death. After Achille ... killed Hector, Achille was then killed by Paris on his ... heel. And soon, Paris died in the battle. The King of Ithaca, Odysseus, had ... ...

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... The Illiad is a tale of heroes and gods, it is a story of Achilles, of his anger and determination. And of his slaying of the Trojan Hector. The purpose of the war was to recover the most beautiful women in the world, Helen. She was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Menelaus went hunting, and Paris from troy came and took Helen away. After two years of ... preparation, the Greek fleet of more than 1,000 ships and 100 ... a majority of the honorable tasks were very selfish. One example of this is when hector the mighty warrior of Troy, accepts the challenge of the goddess Pallas Ath...

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