Achilles vs. Hector
In the Iliad
the battle between Achilles and Hector is described in a completely different
view ‘As Achilles bear down on Hector, Hector begins to lose his nerve. Hector runs towards the Scamander River
(Xanthus). The two warrior’s race three times around Troy’ Iliad book XXII, This is an example
of the differences between the two because as this clip describes Hector actually stays and fights to his death with honor.
Wolfgang may have added the battle with Achilles and Hector to add more action for the audience and to have Hector portrayed as a heroic
man (possibly because he is trying to make out that he his on both sides Greek and Trojan) where in the Iliad Hector is considered a coward possibly due to the fact
that Homer was a Greek and his audience, all Greek, which may have led to Hector running away in fear of Achilles (the god who could not be killed) in the Iliad
and running three times around the city of Troy to emphasize the fact that all
Trojans where cowards in the face of ‘the great and powerful Greeks’
| Alas! the gods have lured me on to my destruction. ... death is now indeed exceedingly near at hand and there is no way out of it- for so Zeus and his son Apollo the far-darter have willed it, though heretofore they have been ever ready to protect me. My doom has come upon me; let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. | ” | |
Spoken by Hector facing Achilles, after a missed spear-throw, The Iliad Book XXII
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This shows how Homer uses Hector as a symbol for weakness by pleading for his honor to be restored by Achilles, a Greek,meaning to Homer that the Greeks are more stronger and far Superior than the Trojans.
After the battle
In both the Iliad and the movie Troy Achilles kills Hector, but after Hector has been dragged, Achilles in the movie Troy takes the body of Hector back to the Greek camp but in the Iliad the body of Hector is 'left for the dogs'.Wolfgang Peterson may have chosen to do this to try to show Achilles as less of a barbarian than the Iliad tells us and also how Achilles in the movie Troy Achilles sulks in his tent where as the Iliad dose no such thing, this may have happens to try and make the audience feel something for Achilles than just a brute beast of a killer but try to find something in Achilles that is not just brutality but more of a human being.
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