Hector - Mythopedia
Jul 13, 2023 · Virgil: Hector makes a brief appearance in Book 2 of Virgil’s Aeneid (19 BCE), where Aeneas reports that as Troy was burning, Hector came to him in a dream and warned him to flee the city. Ovid: Hector is mentioned in some of Ovid’s poetry, such as the Heroides (late first century BCE) and the Metamorphoses (ca. 8 CE), but his mythology is ...
Iliad: Book 6 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache. The gods having left the field, the Grecians prevail. Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight.
Achilles - Mythopedia
Jul 31, 2023 · Achilles has also been portrayed in film and television. In the 2004 film Troy, Achilles was played by Brad Pitt. More recently, David Gyasi played Achilles in the 2018 television series Troy: Fall of a City. Achilles also appears in Eric Shanower’s Age of Bronze (1998–), an ongoing graphic novel series that retells the myth of the Trojan War.
Astyanax – Mythopedia
May 24, 2023 · Astyanax (also called Scamandrius) was the son of Hector and Andromache, a prince and princess of Troy. During the sack of Troy, Astyanax—still a small child—was viciously killed by either Neoptolemus or Odysseus , who hurled him from the city walls.
Iliad: Book 22 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
Achilles pursues him thrice round the walls of Troy. The gods debate concerning the fate of Hector; at length Minerva descends to the aid of Achilles. She deludes Hector in the shape of Deiphobus; he stands the combat, and is slain. Achilles drags the dead body at his chariot in the sight of Priam and Hecuba. Their lamentations, tears, and despair.
Helen of Troy - Mythopedia
Dec 8, 2022 · Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships,” was a daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famous for her extraordinary beauty. When Helen left her Greek husband for a handsome Trojan prince, the Greeks started the Trojan War to get her back.
Iliad: Book 20 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
After a long conversation, these two heroes encounter; but AEneas is preserved by the assistance of Neptune. Achilles falls upon the rest of the Trojans, and is upon the point of killing Hector, but Apollo conveys him away in a cloud. Achilles pursues the Trojans with a great slaughter. The same day continues. The scene is in the field before Troy.
Agamemnon - Mythopedia
Jul 12, 2023 · The Iliad ends with Hector’s funeral in Troy. The Fall of Troy. After Hector fell, the Trojan War dragged on a bit longer, with both sides suffering important losses (e.g., Penthesilea, Memnon, and Paris on the Trojan side, and Achilles and Ajax the Greater on the Greek side).
Aeneas - Mythopedia
Jun 6, 2023 · At Buthrotum, they found two other survivors of the sack of Troy—Hector’s widow Andromache and the seer Helenus. Helenus told Aeneas more about his destiny and his journey. In Sicily, they met Achaemenides, a Greek soldier in Odysseus’ army who had been left behind when Odysseus fled the Cyclops Polyphemus. At Drepana, Anchises died of ...
Patroclus – Mythopedia
Jul 5, 2023 · But he made the mistake of fighting Hector, the strongest of the Trojan warriors. Hector killed Patroclus and stripped Achilles’ armor from the body. Roman statue of Menelaus holding the body of Patroclus (or Achilles holding the body of Achilles), 1st century CE copy after a Greek original from the 3rd century BCE