achilles won the fight between achilles and hector.
achilles won the fight between achilles and hector.
who wins the fight between achilles and hector?
achilles
enraged over the death of patroclus, achilles ends his refusal to fight and takes the field, killing many men in his rage but always seeking out hector. achilles even engages in battle with the river god scamander, who has become angry that achilles is choking his waters with all the men he has killed. the god tries to drown achilles but is stopped by hera and hephaestus. zeus himself takes note of achilles' rage and sends the gods to restrain him so that he will not go on to sack troy itself before the time allotted for its destruction, seeming to show that the unhindered rage of achilles can defy fate itself. finally, achilles finds his prey. achilles chases hector around the wall of troy three times before athena, in the form of hector's favorite and dearest brother, deiphobus, persuades hector to stop running and fight achilles face to face. after hector realizes the trick, he knows the battle is inevitable. wanting to go down fighting, he charges at achilles with his only weapon, his sword, but misses. accepting his fate, hector begs achilles, not to spare his life, but to treat his body with respect after killing him. achilles tells hector it is hopeless to expect that of him, declaring that "my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me". achilles then kills hector and drags his corpse by its heels behind his chariot. after having a dream where patroclus begs achilles to hold his funeral, achilles hosts a series of funeral games in his honour.
achilles
the trojans are still scared to fight the injured achilles. achilles dies and paris attempts to remove his corpse. ajax defends the body, killing glaukos, who falls on top of achilles. ajax also injures aeneas. odysseus helps ajax defend achilles’ body. ajax stuns paris by hitting him with a rock, forcing paris to give up his attempt to take the corpse. the greeks successfully drive the trojans off and rescue achilles’ body, bringing it back to the greek camp. ajax is the first to eulogize achilles, then phoinix, agamemnon, briseis, and thetis, achilles mother. kalliope tells thetis that her son will always be remembered. the greeks then compete in the funeral games: teukros and ajax competed for 10 cows, diomedes and ajax won wrestling, nobody will wrestle idomenlus, epeios and akanas box, teukros wins the archery competition.
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