Hector: The Trojan Hero

... battle against the Trojans. Rising action of the poem is Hector's assault on the Achaean ships; the return of Patroclus to combat; the death of Patroclus. Climax of the poem is Achilles' return to combat turns the tide against the Trojans once and for all and ensures the fated fall of Troy to which the poet has alluded throughout the poem. Falling action is the retreat of the Trojan army; Achilles' revenge on Hector; the Achaeans' desecration ... to fall in love with Aeneas. Taking advantage of these events in a further attempt to detain Aeneas far from his Italian goal, Juno, wi...

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... down Hector the prince of Troy, a step in the right direction in defeating the Trojans. The Greek people look on with great admiration to this man, he is their hero. Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, king of Mykenai, and known as the most powerful king of the Greeks is next in line to be a potential hero in the Iliad. He may at first fit the role as hero because he is the king during the Trojan ... represents little to no courage in the story so when everything is put together it is hard to make a case for Agamemnon being a hero on the same level as Achilles and Hector. Hector, the son of P...

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... which he has so carefully explained to Achilles. Although Hector has been warned by Apollo not to fight Achilles alone, he cannot contain himself when the Greek hero kills his brother. He challenges Achilles by throwing a spear at him, which Athena diverts. When Achilles charges back, Hector must be continually aided by Apollo, who wraps the Trojan in a protective mist. Achilles realizes that he cannot ... yet fight Hector, for it is not fated by the gods at this point. Before decisively facing his ... reason and sympathy to return to his character. Due to the encouragement of his mothe...

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... and self control, as well as humanity to earn this title. Importance, whether relating to the gods or royalty is a characteristic the epic hero possesses, and it is through this natural hierarchy that the hero rises to become an idol of all the men he represents. Through The Iliad, both Hector, a Trojan warrior, and Achilles, a Greek warrior stand out as fighters that identify much of Homer's ... ideals concerning the definition of the Epic Hero. Despite this, Hector better embodies those characteristics, and ultimately is the most accurate classification of the Epic Hero in the Iliad. ...

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... people say, when he comes back from battle, "Here is a better man than his father." Let him bring home the bloodstained armour of the enemy he has killed, and make his mother happy. To Hector the ideals of strength, intelligence and being magnanimous are important. It is important for a hero to display his strength and prowess, and thus kill many in battle. One can see ... is only given to those who are considered great and powerful warriors. Diomedes is the first to volunteer when Nestor suggests a raid on the Trojan camp during the night. During battle, Diomedes repeatedly shows his b...

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... 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 later his death is avenged when Paris is killed. In chapter eleven we learn that the Greeks already had their people inside the walls of Troy, so the Trojan horse wasn ... 't all that important to ca...

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... and resolve that his people have a chance at victory is a challenge, even if he is unaware of it. Hector also faces the challenge of standing by his brother, Paris, whom he knows was wrong in taking Helen from Meneleus in the first place. Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior and prince of Troy, is depicted as a loyal family man who places his duty to family above correcting ... and once that choice is made the events that take place in between are "filler. " By filler I mean that it probably does not matter how we get to our end result, the point is that we will get there and we will get...

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... They are both epics, a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds. The Iliad follows the actions of the Greek hero, Achilles, nine years after the start of the Trojan War. The Aeneid is about Aeneas, a survivor of the siege of Troy, and his journey to Rome, in order to fulfill his destiny of creating the Roman Empire. The Iliad and The Aeneid were written over half a century apart, yet they share ... ; 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 cha...

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... think this all worth being the wife of such a distinguished man as Hector, as she laments her lost past "as Hektor's wife, soon mother of Hektor's son "Andromache, in the old days oh so lucky."" (Andromache, Euripides, lines 4-5) In a world where a woman is defined by her husband, Andromache considered herself lucky to have been the wife of a Trojan prince and hero, albeit a fallen one. It ... , to also try to protect Andromache and his son, as he says in the Iliad "But may I be dead and the piled earth hide me under before I hear you crying and know by this that they drag you captive.""...

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