Understanding Hektor and Achilleus as tragic characters

The Iliad of homer is a poem that is “15,693 lines written in dactylic hexameter.”(Intro, 14) and takes place during the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Iliad concentrates mostly, on the lives and tribulations of Hektor and Achilleus. In this paper I am going to write how Achilleus and Hektor can be understood as tragic figures and why do I think that Hektor is the most tragic character of them both. Achilleus is one …showed first 75 words of 1310 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1310 total…vain. achilleus at least is willing to die to avenge the death of his friend, while hektor on the othr hand dies for a war that even the person who cause it , paris. Didn’t want to fight. In the end achilleus had the pleasure of seeing the great hektor running and pleading for his life. So, in the end hektor died without the thwo things he cherished the most, his life and his honor.