While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

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The heroes met, and Hector was killed. Achilles himself died at the hand of Paris, whose arrow found his heel, and the war was ended by a trick: Ulysses’ famed stratagem of the wooden horse.