Or, maybe some Achaean will hurl you O miserable death from our walls, to avenge some brother, son, or father whom Hektor slew; many of them have indeed bitten the dust at his hands, for your father's hand in battle was no light one.
Therefore do the people mourn him. You have left, O Hektor, sorrow unutterable to your parents, and my own grief [ penthos ] is greatest of all, for you did not stretch forth your arms and embrace me as you lay dying, nor say to me any words that might have lived with me in my tears night and day for evermore.
Hecuba in her turn took up the strains of woe. Therefore my tears flow both for you and for my unhappy self, for there is no one else in Troy who is kind to me, but all shrink and shudder as they go by me. Thus, then, did they celebrate the funeral of Hektor tamer of horses. E Iliad , alternative endings: Thus, then, did they celebrate the funeral of Hektor; and an Amazon came, the daughter of great-hearted man-slaying Ares.
Thus, then, did they celebrate the funeral of Hektor; and an Amazon came, the daughter of Otreres, the beautiful Penthesileia. In the middle of her aristeia, Achilles kills her and the Trojans arrange for her funeral. Thersites, reviling and reproaching Achilles by saying that he loved Penthesileia, is killed by Achilles. From this a quarrel arises among the Achaeans about Thersites' murder.
After this, Achilles sails to Lesbos, sacrifices to Apollo, Artemis, and Leto and is purified of the murder by Odysseus. Thetis tells her son about the outcome of events concerning Memnon. At this, Eos asks from Zeus the dispensation of immortality for him [Memnon], and it is granted.
But Achilles, while routing the Trojans and rushing into the citadel, is killed by Paris and Apollo. When a heated battle starts over the corpse, [15] Aias [Ajax] picks it up and carries it off to the ships while Odysseus fights off the Trojans. Then they hold funeral rites for Antilochos and lay out Achilles' corpse; Thetis comes with the Muses and her sisters and makes a lament for her son.
But the Achaeans heap up his burial mound and hold funeral games and a quarrel breaks out between Odysseus and Aias over the armor of Achilles. G Odyssey 8. You must have studied under the Muse, Zeus' daughter, and under Apollo, - with such a sense of order [ kosmos ] do you sing the return of the Achaeans with all their sufferings and adventures.
If you were not there yourself, you must have heard it all from some one who was. He asks Achilles to think of his own father, Peleus, and the love between them.
Achilles weeps for his father and for Patroclus. He accepts the ransom and agrees to give the corpse back. Priam and Idaeus wake, place Hector in their chariot, and slip out of the camp unnoticed. Some of the competitions, however, especially the chariot race, provide some drama, but none of the events of Book 24 hinge on their outcome. Just as Antilochus finishes second to Diomedes, so does Achilles rank second to Agamemnon; Antilochus, as Achilles does earlier, refuses to suffer the injustice and humiliation of having his achievements go unappreciated.
Unlike the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon, however, this matter is settled peacefully and has no lasting results for any of the characters. Ultimately, the games function for the reader much as they do for the characters—as a diversion from grief. The Iliad ends much as it began: just as Chryses does in Book 1 , Priam now crosses enemy lines to supplicate the man who has his child. Achilles knows that he is fated never to return to Phthia, meaning that one day Peleus will be the bereft father that Achilles has made Priam, mourning a child snatched from his grasp in enemy territory.
The bond between Achilles and Priam proves entirely transitory, however. No alliances have shifted; Agamemnon would surely take Priam prisoner if he found him in the Achaean camp. Achilles and Priam remain enemies, as Hermes soon reminds Priam. Nonetheless, while Achilles and Priam remain enemies, their animosity has become a nobler, more respectful one. He was killied. Prince Hector.
Priam and Hecuba try to dissuade Hector from facing Achilles outside the city walls by arguing that Achilles is far stronger than him and that the people will be deeply sorrowed if he dies. Priamos King Priam was their king and Hector was his son, who fought Achilles and was killed. Hector, son of Priam, prince of Troy, was slewed by Achilles. That his body be returned to his family namely his father, Priam. Achilles initially rejects this request in Book 22 but in Book 24 returns it when pressed by sympathy for Priam's fatherly tenderness.
He wants the body of hector and goes to Achilles tent to beg for it back. He drew on the universal themes of grief; his own for his son and Achilles' for Patroklos, and also asks Achilles to think of him as his own father, who has the hope that his son, Achilles will come back alive, yet Priam hasn't even got this.
Priam also brings a large ransom with him. Hector doesn't heed King Priam's words. He felt a sense of duty to protect his home and his family. When the Greeks reach the walls of Troy, Hector goes into battle with Achilles--knowing that his wrath could not be subsided by words of kindness and forgiveness.
Because he lead the Trojans, Achilles felt that it was his fault that the Greeks prematurely won the war. He was killed by Achilles, because he had killed Achilles' best friend Patroclus. Apart from the fact that they are on different sides, Achilles is seen as a more ferocious warrior, and Hector as a more morally right character. Achilles agrees to stop the battle so that Hector is given the funeral he deserves.
The battle does not resume for 12 days. Achilles tied Hector to the back of his chariot and dragged him around the city of Troy while shouting "I killed Hector". After persuasion from Priam he agrees to return the body for its weight in Trojan gold.
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