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

the great Greek hero Achilles mourns the death of his friend Patroclus with lamentations, funeral games, feasts, war cries. Over the corpse of Hector, the mourning is quieter, deeper. Something of ...

An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus ... climaxing with the death of Hector at ...

Hector Eldest son of King Priam of Troy; chief warrior on the Trojan side but will meet his match in Achilles Achilles Key warrior on the Greek side - but refuses to fight until his cousin ...