Triumphant Achilles dragging Hector’s body around Troy, from a panoramic fresco of the Achilleion. Credit: Franz Matsch / Public Domain He was the swift-footed Achilles, the greatest warrior of the ...

In response, Achilles belows: “Curse you, Hector, and don’t talk of oaths to me. Lions and men make no compacts, nor are wolves and lambs in sympathy: they are opposed, to the end.

The battle of Hector and Achilles as imagined in Troy (2004). Ultimately, Achilles kills Hector and desecrates his body, but Hector was clearly the better man. Two worldviews collide.

Hector (Eric Bana), prince of Troy, negotiates a peace treaty with Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), the king of Sparta, while ...

Memnon arrives at Troy to fight Achilles and the Greeks Memnon, in Greek mythology, was king of the Ethiopians and the son of Tithonus (son of Laomedon, legendary king of Troy) and Eos (goddess of the ...

Troy's highlight is Achilles (Pitt) and Hector's (Bana) duel, which faithfully adapted the source material. In an interview with Black Film, Bana confirmed they were as invested in fight scenes as ...

In legend, Achilles, Greek warrior and hero of the Trojan War, fought Trojan prince Hector to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus. Hector had killed Patroclus, and he planned to cut off Patroclus ...

In 2019, Aslan identified a new layer, the oldest so far, which he called Troy 0, not shown on this map. The city of Homer's epic is thought to correspond to Troy VI-VIIa.