Hector
Hector,in mythology son of Priam and Hecuba, husband of Andromache and father of Astyanax (Iliad 6. 394ff.), and the greatest of the Trojan champions. In Homer's Iliad he first appears leading the Trojans out to battle (2. 807 ff.); he reproaches Paris for avoiding Menelaus (3. 38ff.), and arranges the truce and the single combat between the two (85 ff.). He takes a prominent part in the fighting of books 5 and 6, but in the latter goes back to the city for a while to arrange for offerings to be made to the gods. He thus meets Andromache and Astyanax on the city walls in one of the best-known scenes of the Iliad, then returns with Paris to the battle. In book 7 he challenges any Greek hero to single combat, and is met by the greater Aias, who has rather the better of the encounter; they part with an exchange of gifts. In book 8 he drives the Greeks back to their camp and bivouacs on the plain. In the...
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