In the end, he was slain by achilles, the greatest of the greek warriors. Astyanax (also called scamandrius) was the son of hector and andromache, a prince and princess of troy During the sack of troy, astyanax—still a small child—was viciously killed by either neoptolemus or odysseus, who hurled him from the city walls. Argument the death of hector the trojans being safe within the walls, hector only stays to oppose achilles Hecuba joins her entreaties, but in vain Hector consults within himself what measures to take
But at the advance of achilles, his resolution fails him, and he flies Achilles pursues him thrice round. Patroclus was a greek hero and the closest friend of achilles After hector killed patroclus during the trojan war, achilles was quick to avenge him. Hector, the oldest son of priam and the commander of the trojan army, was virtually invincible without achilles to keep him in check Eventually, agamemnon became desperate and begged achilles to rejoin the fighting, promising to return briseis in addition to many other treasures.
Helenus, the chief augur of troy, commands hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the trojan matrons to the temple of minerva, to entreat her to remove diomed from the fight The battle relaxing during the absence of. Here hector, plunging through the thickest fight, broke the dark phalanx, and let in the light (by the long lance, the sword, or ponderous stone The ranks he scatter’d and the troops o’erthrown:) ajax he shuns, through all the dire debate, and fears that arm whose force he felt so late. Ajax the greater fought with the other greeks during the trojan war, where he was regarded as second only to the mighty achilles
Among other accomplishments, ajax once fought hector, the greatest of the trojan heroes, to a draw Unfortunately, the formidable ajax also had a formidable temper. Andromache, daughter of king eetion of cilician thebes, was the wife of hector and mother of astyanax A devoted wife and mother, she lost her husband and son in the trojan war, after which she herself was taken to greece as a captive. The iliad, said to have been composed by homer, is an epic poem that was probably originally put into writing during the middle of the eighth century bce Set during the famous trojan war, the poem describes the events following a quarrel between achilles and agamemnon.
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