And Achilles versus Hector, the Trojan prince who kills Patroclus, Achilles’s closest friend. The high moment of the poem is arguably the encounter between Achilles and Hector.

Archaeologists in the UK uncovered a mosaic from the Roman era depicting the famous battle between two protagonists of the ...

And Achilles versus Hector, the Trojan prince who kills Patroclus, Achilles’s closest friend. The high moment of the poem is arguably the encounter between Achilles and Hector.

After Achilles kills Hector, he strips him naked and drags his corpse behind his chariot three times around the walls of Troy. Brutality engenders brutality. When Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 ...

Achilles must find out what has happened during the intervening decade, uncover the secrets of his rebirth, seek out his fellow Myrmidons, and kill loads and loads of monsters in as gory a fashion ...

It is only when his soulmate, Patroclus, is killed in battle by the Trojan crown prince Hector that Achilles is persuaded to return to the fray to avenge his friend by slaying Hector.

Is that what kills Hector, that he's so much of a man that he's always going out ahead of others, and is that what drives the rage of Achilles, being so much of a man that he's got an almost more ...

The archetype of the Western warrior is Homer’s Achilles. ... Achilles not only kills the Trojan prince Hector but then drags his body around Troy for his horrified parents and widow to see.