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Achilles: The Controversy Between Achilles And Hector

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Achilles was sitting in his tent pouting, for there was disbelief between Achilles and king Agamemnon.
There were two armies the Greeks and the Trojans. Achilles was the Greeks best warrior, and hector was the Trojans best warrior. Hector wanted to kill the legendary Achilles so he could be the best warrior between the two. When hector called upon Achilles to fight him, the Greek Patroclus, put on Achilles armor and pretended to be Achilles. Patroclus fought against Hector, but instead Hector injured
Patroclus and killed him.

Then since Hector and Patroclus had a one on one battle, then everyone watching thought that Achilles was dead. In So much rage against Hector for killing Patroclus, Achilles killed Hector, and he made sure that

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