The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Hector

Family: Troy · Role: Trojan hero · First appears: Fable 98

Fable 98

  • siblings with Æsacus (Æsacus is Hector's brother.) “He himself was the brother of Hector”
  • elder kin: Dymas “He himself was the brother of Hector, and had he not experienced a strange fate in his early youth, perhaps he would have had a name not inferior to {that} of Hector; although the daughter of Dymas bore this {last}.”

Fable 99

  • enemies with Ajax “Him demanding one with whom he might engage, did I alone withstand; and you, Greeks, prayed {it might fall} to my lot”
  • enemies with Ulysses “Hector approaches, and brings the Gods along with him to battle, and where he rushes on, not only art thou alarmed, Ulysses, but even the valiant {are}”
  • married with Andromache “He was the only child of Hector and Andromache.”
  • child: Andromache “He was the only child of Hector and Andromache.”

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