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Hector was Priam's eldest son by Hecuba, and heir to the Trojan throne.
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Cassandra was also the first to see the body of her brother Hector being brought back to the city.
However, by all accounts Hector was the best warrior the Trojans and all their allies could field, and his fighting prowess was admired by Greeks and his own people alike.
In his response, Achilles points out that while Hector was terrorizing the Greek forces now, while he himself had fought in their front lines, Hector had ' no wish ' to take his force far beyond the walls and out from the Skiaian Gate and nearby oak tree.
Hector decides that he will go down fighting and that men will talk about his bravery in years to come ; the desire to achieve ever-lasting honor was one of the most fierce for soldiers living in the timocratic ( honor based ) society of the age.
Moses I. Finley observes " this typical bit of fiction must mean that there was an old Theban hero Hector, a Greek, whose myths antedated the Homeric poems.
According to Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso it once belonged to Hector of Troy, and was given to Roland by Malagigi ( Maugris ).
As for this young man ( motioning to Lucius ), he insists that you are Hector reborn ...( now speaking to Lucius ) or was it Hercules?
A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the son of Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg, and his first wife Magdalena of Saxony.
Magdalena was thus married, at Dresden, on 6 November 1524, to her second cousin's son Joachim Hector, the future Elector of Brandenburg.
These advances would lead Hector Berlioz to write a landmark book on instrumentation, which was the first systematic treatise on the use of instrumental sound as an expressive element of music.
Protesilaus had killed many Trojans but was killed by Hector in most versions of the story, though others list Aeneas, Achates, or Ephorbus as his slayer.
An earlier appeal to Achilles to return was rejected, but after Hector burned Protesilaus ' ship, he allowed his close friend and relative Patroclus to go into battle wearing Achilles ' armour and lead his army.
Patroclus was then killed by Hector, who took Achilles ' armour from the body of Patroclus.
The Trojan army returned to the city, except for Hector, who remained outside the walls because he was tricked by Athena.
Neoptolemus got Andromache, wife of Hector, and Odysseus was given Hecuba, Priam's wife.
In 1933, Sir Horace Hector Hearne was appointed as Puisne Judge, Tanganyika Territory, and acted as Chief Justice of Tanganyika in 1935 and 1936.
During this campaign in September 1780, Tipu Sultan was dispatched by Hyder Ali with 10, 000 men and 18 guns to intercept Colonel Baillie who was on his way to join Sir Hector Munro.
Hector Berlioz's Harold in Italy was written for solo viola and orchestra.
He was removed to his seat at Hayes, where his son William read Homer to him: the passage about the death of Hector.
* According to Hector Boece, the Stone was first kept in the west of Scotland at the lost city of Evonium.
After concluding a diplomatic mission to Sparta during the latter part of which Menelaus was absent to attend the funeral of his maternal grandfather Catreus, Paris absconded to Troy with Helen in tow despite his brother Hector forbidding her to depart with them.
Hector and Priam's
Achilles, moved by Priam's actions and following his mother's orders sent by Zeus, returns Hector's body, and promises Priam a truce of twelve days to allow the Trojans to perform funeral rites for Hector.
He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris.
* Priam's children Cassandra ( a prophetess ), Hector, Troilus, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus and Margareton ( bastard )
Hector and eldest
Sigismund's eldest daughter Hedwig ( 1513 – 1573 ) married Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg.
The titles were created with special remainder to his second son, Hector, as his eldest son, Daniel, was then considered mentally unwell.
From his camp at Arcot Hyder Ali sent part of his army under the command of his eldest son, Tipu Sultan, to intercept a British force from Guntur sent to reinforce Colonel Hector Munro's army to the north at Madras.
In the novel The Monarch of the Glen, which inspired the series, Hector MacDonald is the eldest son of the Laird of Glenbogle, Donald MacDonald, and shares the name with three notable ancestors.
According to Hector P. Nolasco, the eldest and most experienced historian in history of the municipality of sponge-cake, where at present it is A Sponge-cake they were household tasks that were concerning ( belonged ) to Camasca's party ( game ) wherefrom they were disintegrated to form a new municipality.
Hector and son
He is the leader of the Trojans ' Dardanian allies, as well as a third cousin and principal lieutenant of Hector, son of the Trojan king Priam.
Indeed Homer places Hector as peace-loving, thoughtful as well as bold, a good son, husband and father, and without darker motives.
Hector knows that Troy and the house of Priam are doomed to fall and that the gloomy fate of his wife and infant son will be to die or go into slavery in a foreign land.
Hector takes it off, embraces his wife and son, and for her sake prays aloud to Zeus that his son might be chief after him and become more glorious in battle than he.
Priam tearfully pleads with Achilles to take pity on a father bereft of his son and return Hector ’ s body.
Hector Hodler, son of famous Swiss national painter Ferdinand Hodler, in 1920
He works delivering pizzas for a local pizzeria, but he lacks ambition and he works to support his girlfriend Tina ( Perez ) and their son Hector.
* Rosie Perez as Tina, Mookie's girlfriend who also has a son by him named Hector.
When Hector was driving the Achaeans back toward their ships, Teucer gave the Argives some success by killing many of the charging Trojans, including Hector's charioteer, Archeptolemus son of Iphitos.
A different tradition, attested in a lost poem of Stesichorus makes Penthesilea the slayer of Hector, seen as a son of Apollo.
Priam is not unlike Niobe in the sense that he was also grieving for his son Hector, who was killed and not buried for several days.
During the Trojan War, Hector was killed by Achilles, and their son Astyanax was thrown from the city walls by the Greek Herald Talthybius.
In Greek mythology, Astyanax (; Ancient Greek: Ἀστυάναξ – Astyánax, gen .: Ἀστυάνακτος ) was the son of Hector, Crown Prince of Troy and Princess Andromache of Cilician Thebe.
In this tradition, the epic hero Roland's sword Durendal was the very sword used by Hector, and Roland wins the sword by defeating a Saracen knight ( almonte, the son of Agolant ) who had defeated Ruggiero II.
Diomedes answered, " Hector will talk among the Trojans and say, ' The son of Tydeus fled before me to the ships.
Patroclus killed many Trojans and allies including the Lycian hero Sarpedon ( a son of Zeus ), and Cebriones ( the chariot driver of Hector and illegitimate son of Priam ).
He had a son named Periphetes, who features briefly in the Iliad as a well-loved warrior speared by Hector or killed by Teucer.
* Periphetes, the son of Copreus ; he was killed during the Trojan war by Hector.
Hector, rather than being upset, was concerned over the homophobia to which his son might be subjected, but affirmed that he would be supportive of his son.
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