Hector
Family: The Trojans · Role: warrior · First appears: Book I · Part 1
Before the poem begins, at Troy, the Trojans recalled how Achilles had slain Hector and dragged his corpse around Troy. Hector was married to Andromache, who was left widowed, and he had killed Protesilaus long ago.
Relationship record
Life events
- The Trojans recalled how Achilles had slain Hector and dragged his corpse around Troy before the poem begins.(Book I · Part 1 · 📍 Troy)
- With: Achilles
- “how he quelled Hector, how he haled His corse round Troy”
- Hector killed Protesilaus.(Book I · Part 7)
- With: Protesilaus
- “Protesilaus, he who long ago Fell, slain of Hector”
Book I · Part 1
- with Achilles (interaction) “When godlike Hector by Peleides slain”
- enemies with Achilles “how he quelled Hector, how he haled His corse round Troy”
- married with Andromache “Me widowed of mine hero-husband, made My portion bitterness through all my days.”
Book I · Part 3
- with Penthesileia (The charging Trojans are described as Hector's friends and brethren; their collective association with Penthesileia is stated.) “Behind her swept The charging lines of men fleet-footed, friends And brethren of the man who never flinched From close death-grapple, Hector,”
- with Penthesileia (The Trojans charging behind Penthesileia are Hector's friends and brothers; the passage connects her advance with Hector's forces.) “Behind her swept The charging lines of men fleet-footed, friends And brethren of the man who never flinched From close death-grapple, Hector,”
Book I · Part 5
- with Achilles (Achilles claims to have killed Hector.) “Ay, even Hector quailed, the battle-swift, Before us, e'en though far away he saw Our onrush to grim battle. Yea, my spear Slew him, for all his might.”
Book I · Part 7
- with Protesilaus (Hector killed Protesilaus.) “Protesilaus, he who long ago Fell, slain of Hector:”
Book II · Part 1
- with Achilles (Achilles defeated Hector.) “But overborne he was by Achilles' hands,”
- enemies with Achilles “But overborne he was by Achilles' hands,”
Book II · Part 3
- with Achilles (Achilles avenged Patroclus' death on Hector.) “Patroclus' death I avenged On Hector, and Antilochus on thee Will I avenge.”
Book III · Part 1
- friends with Orythaon “The goodly Orythaon, comrade stout Of Hector, through his temples crashing clear:”
- with Apollo (Hera recalls Apollo having saved Hector.) “When from destruction thou at the first didst save Hector, whereat the Trojans all through Troy Exulted.”
Book III · Part 2
- siblings with Paris (Paris identifies the dead brother as Hector in this context.) “The steeds that, grieving, yearning for their lord To fight have borne me since my brother died.”
Book IV · Part 1
- with Achilles (interaction) “And how he smote down Hector; how he slew Penthesileia, and the godlike son Of splendour-throned Dawn;--all this he sang”
Book V · Part 3
- with Ajax son of Telamon (interaction) “Then thrust the sword of Hector through his throat.”
Book VI · Part 1
- with Paris (Paris welcomes Eurypylus; Hector honours him.) “Paris welcomed him, As Hector honouring him, his cousin he,”
- cousins with Eurypylus son of Telephus “As Hector honouring him, his cousin he, Being of one blood with him, who was born Of Astyoche, King Priam's sister fair”
Book X · Part 3
- parent: Hecuba “Best Of all my sons, save Hector alone, wast thou!”
- siblings with Paris “Best Of all my sons, save Hector alone, wast thou!”
- parent: Priam “For most of all his sons he honoured him, His mightiest, the defender of his land.”
Book XIII · Part 2
- child: Astyanax “They tore the child Out of his mother's arms, in wrathful hate Of Hector, who in life had dealt to them Such havoc; therefore hated they his seed,”
- married with Andromache “Then, as on those three fearful deaths she thought Of husband, child, and father, Andromaehe”
- with Achilles (interaction) “For Peleus' son smote down my noble father In Thebe, and in Troy mine husband slew,”
Book XIV · Part 1
- with Achilles (Peleus' son dragged Hector's body around Troy.) “The War's Story in their eager ears He sang--how leagued peoples gathering met At hallowed Aulis--how the invincible strength Of Peleus' son smote fenced cities twelve In sea-raids, how he marched o'er leagues on leagues Of land, and spoiled eleven--all he wrought In fight with Telephus and Eetion-- How he slew giant Cycnus--all the toil Of war that through Achilles' wrath befell The Achaeans--how he dragged dead Hector round His own Troy's wall,”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.