Hector

Family: Trojan · Role: warrior · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.12

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Hector) · The Aeneid (as Hector) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Hector) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Hector)

Life events

• Hector breached the wall and set fire to the ships.(Apollodorus, Epitome 4)
  • “Hector made a breach in the wall and entered and, Ajax having retreated, he set fire to the ships.”
• Hector killed Patroclus after Euphorbus first wounded him.(Apollodorus, Epitome 4)
  • With: Patroclus Euphorbus
  • “and was himself killed by Hector, after being first wounded by Euphorbus.”
• Achilles killed Hector in single combat and dragged his body to the ships.(Apollodorus, Epitome 4)
  • With: Achilles
  • “And Achilles slew Hector in single combat, and fastening his ankles to his chariot dragged him to the ships.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• parent: Priam “The first son born to her was Hector”
• parent: Hecuba “The first son born to her was Hector”
• married with Andromache “Now Hector married Andromache, daughter of Eetion”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

• enemies with Achilles “Of the Greeks the first to land from his ship was Protesilaus, and having slain not a few of the barbarians, he fell by the hand of Hector.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 4

• enemies with Ajax son of Telamon “And Hector having challenged the bravest to single combat, many came forward, but the lot fell on Ajax, and he did doughty deeds; but night coming on, the heralds parted them.”
• enemies with Patroclus “And having chased them within the wall, he killed many, amongst them Sarpedon, son of Zeus, and was himself killed by Hector, after being first wounded by Euphorbus.”
• enemies with Achilles “And Achilles slew Hector in single combat, and fastening his ankles to his chariot dragged him to the ships.”
• with Priam (Priam ransomed and buried Hector's body.) “And after the games Priam came to Achilles and ransomed the body of Hector, and buried it.”

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