Achilles kills Hector and steals his corpse, but Priam pleads for it to be returned so that the proper funeral rites can be ...

The Iliad begins with the rage of “murderous, doomed” Achilles on the eve of battle and ends with the funeral of Hector, killed by Achilles. As you point out, ...

Because Achilles and Patroclus cared for each other very deeply, Patroclus's death threw Achilles into a rage, driving him back to the battlefield to kill Hector even though it would lead to his ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Black Doves creator Joe Barton reveals why Sam can’t manage to kill the grown-up Hector Newman, even though it’s his job to pull the trigger.

The Iliad is a story of war between Greeks and Trojans, but also of “beefs”. Menelaus versus Paris over the hand of Helen. Achilles versus Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks who wrongs him by ...