Research Paper On Hector Andromache

Hector and Andromache There are a lot of important things to know about Hector and Andromache. Both of these Greek mythology figures are part of the Iliad. I think that the most important things to know about this topic is about Hector himself, Andromache herself, and their relationship together. Hector was the Trojan prince and he was considered the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War. He was the first born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. King Priam, Hectors father, was originally known as Podarces. He kept himself from being killed by Heracles by giving him a golden veil made by his sister, Hesbine. After that , he then changed his name to Priam. Queen Hecuba, mother of Hector, had 19 children. Hector was married to Andromache and they had an infant son together. Their

Diomedes and Odysseus described him as an “incredible dynamite” and a “maniac”, when they faced their attack with Hector. Hector had fought the Greek champion, Protesilaus in single combat at the start of the war and Hector killed him during the battle. A prophecy had started that the first Greek to land on Trojan soil will die. So because of that, Protesilaus, Ajax, and Odysseus did not land. Odysseus then finally threw his shield out and landed on that land and Protesilaus then followed after him. During the fight, Hector killed him, as he fulfilled the prophecy. During Hector’s last fight he said these words “Alas! the gods have lured me on to my destruction. ... death is now indeed exceedingly near at hand and there is no way out of it- for so Zeus and his son Apollo the far-darter have willed it, though heretofore they have been ever ready to protect me. My doom has come upon me; let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” Hector takes of the armor of Achilles off the dead Patroclus and gives it to his men to take back to the city. Claucus