Hector : eldest of the 19 children of King Priam & Queen Hecuba of Troy.
... ______ 1. Who has been unexpectedly killed by the Trojan Prince Hector Page 19 chariot-harness, lash the corpse of Hector behind the car for dragging and haul him three times round the dead Patroclus' tomb, and then he'd rest again in his tents and leave the body sprawled facedown in the dust. But Apollo pitied Hector — dead man though he was — and warded all corruption off from Hector's... fury!" But white armed Hera flared at him in anger: "Yes, there'd be some merit even in what you say, lord of the silver bow — if all you gods, in fact, would set Achilles and Hector high in equal honor. But Hector is mortal. He sucked a woman's breast. Achilles sprang from a goddess — one I reared myself: I brought her up and gave her in marriage to a man, to Peleus, dearest to all your hearts... far from our son, and wail for Hector... So this, this is the doom that strong Fate spun out, our son's life line drawn with his first breath — the moment I gave him birth — to glut the wild dogs, cut off from his parents, crushed by the stronger man. Oh would to god that I could sink my teeth in his liver, eat him raw! That would avenge what he has done to Hector — the coward the man Achilles killed ...
... cooped by an upstart race in the walls of Apollo, Saw not Hector slain and Troilus dragged by his coursers. Far over wrathful Jaxartes they rode; the shaken Achaian Prostrate adored your strength who now shouts at your portals and conquers Then when Antenor guided Troy, this old man, this traitor, Not Laocoon, nay, not even Paris nor Hector. But I have changed, I have grown a niggard of blood and... confronts her heavens as when Tros and Laomedon ruled her. All now is changed, these mutter and sigh to you, all now is ended; Strength has renounced you, Fate has finished the thread of her spinning. Hector is dead, he walks in the shadows; Troilus fights not; Resting his curls on the asphodel he has forgotten his country: Strong Sarpedon lies in Bellerophon's city sleeping: Memnon is slain and the... Penthesilea? If there were none but these only, if hosts came not surging behind them, Young men burning-eyed to outdare all the deeds of their elders, Each in his beauty a Troilus, each in his valour a Hector, Yet were the measures poised in the equal balance of Ares. Who then compels you, O people unconquered, to sink down abjuring All that was Troy? For O, if she yield, let her use not ever One of ...
... Artemis; Poseidon and Apollo content themselves with words.- (XXII) All Trojans but Hector fly from Achilles; Priam and Hecuba counsel Hector to stay behind the walls, but he refuses. Then suddenly, as Achilles advances on him, Hector takes to his heels. Achilles pursues him three times around the walls of Troy; Hector makes a stand, and is killed. (XXIII) In the sub-siding finale of the drama, Patroclus... of the fight to the death with Hector we can Page 58 feel the savage intensity of Achilles as a warrior. "...but Achilles was closing on him now like the god of war, the fighter's helmet flashing, over his right shoulder shaking the Pelian ash spear, that terror, and the bronze around his body flared like a raging fire or the rising blazing sun. Hector looked up, saw him, started to... hawk screaming over the quarry, plunging over and over, his fury driving him down to break and tear his kill — so Achilles flew at him, breakneck on in fury with Hector fleeing along the walls of Troy, fast as his legs would go... So Hector could never throw Achilles off his trail, the swift racer Achilles — time and again he'd make a dash for the Dardan Gates (safety), trying to rush beneath the rock-built ...
... surprised her more was, she said, that Horace, a moment later, brought along Hector, 2 the Trojan King ____________________ 1. Girish Ghose, a Bengali dramatist and actor, disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. 2. Trojan warrior, son of Priam and Hecuba, brother of Paris and Cassandra (who was loved by Apollo). Hector was killed by Achilles, who dragged his body three times round the walls of... surmise that they (Hector and Horace 1 ) don't seem to posterity as outstandingly psychic beings, do they? Nevertheless, I am glad that Horace was one of my refreshing ancestors, though I would have preferred to have been Catullus, 2 the philosopher poet. But I fondly trust that Horace was not simply a poet but a man too, worth the name. But somehow I am sorry I was the hectoring Hector once, in my... previous birth. And then didn't Hector abduct Helen and caused the destruction of Troy? How dreadful! I must first get the facts right for you have rolled people into each other with an almost divine vigour. It was Paris if you please who made the disreputable false step which led to the destruction of Troy. To put the blame on the shoulders of poor Hector who was not only a fervent patriot ...
... of Trojans, as a result of which Trojans fly from 'Achilles, except Hector. The father and mother of Hector, the king Priam and queen Hecuba, advise Hector to stay behind the walls, but he refuses. Then suddenly, as Achilles advances upon him, Hector begins to run away. Achilles pursues him three times around the walls of Troy; Hector makes a stand, and is killed. But Achilles, in his anger ties the... fought desperately in a retreat that must mean death. In Book 16, Patroclus, one of the most favoured friends of Achilles, wins his permission to lead Achilles' troops against Troy; Hector kills him, and in Book 17, Hector fights Ajax fiercely over the body of the slain Patroclus.In Book 18, Achilles, on hearing of the death of his beloved friend, Patroclus, resolves to fight, and in Book 19, he is... moment of serenity and real greatness on the pan of Priam and on the part of Achilles. Priam comes in a state of sorrow to beg for the remains of his son, Hector. Achilles politely and respectfully, forgetting all his enmity, returns the body of Hector for burial, issuing orders that it was to be treated in a manner befitting a brave warrior. Here the great poem suddenly ends, and the rest of the ...
... Page 116 Hector and Achilles face to face (6th century BC) known as the goddess of enchantments and magic. It was especially at crossroads that her image could be found, often with three faces (called triple Hecates) and on the eve of the full moon offerings would be left to propitiate the redoubtable goddess. Hector: The eldest son of Priam and Hecuba... where he captured Breseis. When Agamemnon took Breseis from him, Achilles withdrew with his warriors from the battle, but he soon returned to avenge the death of his friend Patroclus by slaying Hector. In Ilion he had again retired from combat, but not for the traditional reason of his mourning for Patroclus. He returns to the fight, considerably mellowed in temper but with new ambitions prophetic... seen by the Achaean sentinels. In the same fashion, he also helped the old king and his herald get away from the ships, in the dead of night to bring back to Troy the dead body of the king's son Hector. Hydra: In Greek mythology, a poisonous water-snake with many heads, which multiplied when they were cut off. It was killed by Heracles, with the help of lolaus, as one of his twelve labors ...
... Briseis and many other splendid gifts if only he would rejoin the Greek ranks and keep Hector from burning their ships but Achilles still refused his help. Not until his beloved friend Patroclus finds his death at the hands of Hector will Achilles return to the battlefield. He will finally kill Hector, and the Iliad ends up abruptly with Hector’s funerals. From other sources... Athena against him. Ares, god of war, always took side with Aphrodite, while Poseidon, Lord of the sea, favored the Greeks, a sea people and great sailors. Apollo helped the Trojans for the sake of Hector, son of Priam and mainstay of Troy, and Artemis, his sister, did so too. Zeus, for his part, tried to stay neutral, but, urged by Thetis, who cruelly wounded by her son’s dishonor wanted a Trojan victory ...
... Achilles, killed by Hector. Peleus: king of the Myrmidons, father of Achilles by the goddess, Thetis. Pergamus: the citadel of Troy. Phyrigia: region in Asia Minor east of Troy. Polyctor: the false name given by Hermes as his father when in disguise he meets Priam on the way to the Greek camp. Priam: king of Troy, father of Hector and Paris. ... of Priam. Argives: alternative name for the Achaeans or Greeks. Alcimus: alternative name for Alcimedon, a Myrmidon commander. Andromache: wife of Trojan Prince Hector. Antiphonus: Trojan, son of Priam. Argos: another name for mainland Greece. Automedon: Charioteer of Achilles; he drove the immortal horses Balius and Xanthus given... someone who was heroic in battle. The Fates: the three goddesses of destiny who preordain the course and outcome of every human life. They are represented as three old women spinning. Hector: the eldest son of Priam and Hecuba and mightiest of the Trojan warriors. He was the leader of the Trojan forces during the siege until he was slam by the Greek hero, Achilles. Hecuba: ...
... light of danger in comparison with incurring dishonour that when his goddess mother warned him, eager as he was to kill Hector, in some such words as these, I fancy, 'My son, if you avenge your comrade Patroclus' death and kill Hector, you will die yourself; Next after Hector is thy fate prepared,' when he heard this warning, he made light of his death and danger, being much more afraid of ...
... light of danger in comparison with incurring dishonour that when his goddess mother warned him, eager as he was to kill Hector, in some such words as these, I fancy, 'My son, if you avenge your comrade Patroclus' death and kill Hector, you will die yourself; Next after Hector is thy fate prepared,' — when he heard this warning, he made light of his death and danger, being much more afraid of ...
... practice.) Chapman has now and then a phrase striking with an exceptionally vivid vehemence at the imagination, like the one about Zeus who, favouring the Trojan Hector and looking wrathfully at the Greek galleys afar which Hector wanted to be set on fire, wished in any wise The splendour of the burning ships might satiate his eyes. Shakespeare, less volcanic, is Marlowe's and Chapman's ...
... the phrase about Priam's wife Hecuba who has suffered the loss of her most virile and valiant son as well as of the son who was most boyishly beautiful: Mother once of Troilus, mother once of Hector. 3 An entire history of rare happiness unremittingly snatched away is touched off, with a supreme restraint twice repeated, by that diminutive pregnancy, the adverb "once". And a long persistent... Mundaka Upanishad. Such passages may leave us most satisfied, but we should not miss in our love of them the fact that Ilion develops in a new way part of the story of Troy after the death of Hector and the coming of the Eastern Queen Penthesilea to the city's succour. Ili on deals with the events on the last day of the siege of Troy. The nature of these events and the many-sided play they involve ...
... shortness of heroic life, the exposure of man to the murderousness and caprice of the inhuman, the fall of the City". 84 If the action of the Iliad is spread over eight days ending with the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles, llion covers the events of a single day, the last day of the doomed city of Troy. The Posthomerica of Quintus of Smyrna mentions how, after Hector's death, among those... s carried hither and thither, now lifted up now cast on the ground, by a prepotent force that has decreed the doom of Troy on this last day of her proud history. When, after the death of Hector, Achilles retires once more to sulk in his * Sri Aurobindo Circle, Number XX (1926), p. 59; in the article "Approaches to Ilion'. This excellent 30 page study and K.D. Sethna's 'Sri Aurobindo ...
... hands except the 380 lines which had appeared in 1942. Like Homer's Iliad, Sri Aurobindo's Ilion is also an incomplete work. Iliad is spread over eight days, ending with the death of Hector at the hands of Achilles. Sri Aurobindo's Ilion covers the events of a single day, the last day of the doomed city of Troy. In Homer's Iliad, the action begins with the wrath of Achilles with Agamemnon... laughter and flourishing highways and temples and sculptures of beauty; there was also the sunshine of mysteries of Apollo that had still survived from ancient luminous dawns. Priam ruled with might and Hector breathed noble heroism and Paris lived in joy and beauty and laughter, and Cassandra, one of the princesses, could divine in her visions Apollo's boons of light and knowledge of past, present and future ...
... Came the god of the great deep-swirling river, Called Xanthus by the immortals, Scamander by men. So gods advanced to meet gods. But Achilles had interest In none but Priam's son Hector, with whose blood He most lusted to glut the battling Ares, him Of the tough hide shield. Host-urging Apollo, however, Inspired great strength in Aeneas and sent him to face The raging... peerless Laomedon, father Of Priam, Tithonus, Clytius, Lampus, and Hicetaon, Scion*of Ares. And Assaracus' son was Capys, Who sired Anchises, who next begot me, and Priam Begot Prince Hector. Such is my lineage, Achilles, And the blood I claim to be of. "But as for prowess In battle, Zeus gives it or takes it away as he, _________________- *Scion: young member of ...
... floundered so badly that at last Achilles allowed Patroclus to impersonate him lending him his chariot and armour. Hector (the eldest son of King Priam of Troy) slew Patroclus, and Achilles, having finally reconciled with Agamemnon, obtained new armour from the god Hephaestus and slew Hector After dragging Hector's body behind his chariot, Achilles gave it to his father Priam at his earnest entreaty. ...
... 119 But Ilion, although left incomplete, is superb in its own way. Homer's Iliad begins with the tenth year of the siege of Troy and concludes with the death and funeral rites of Hector. The subsequent history of the Trojan War may be pieced together from references in other poems of olden times. The Wooden Horse episode is narrated by Aeneas to Dido in the Aeneid. The interval... heroes in combat. 120 It was thus with a sure sense of epic appropriateness that Sri Aurobindo cast his epic as the clash between Penthesilea and Achilles, even as Homer had concentrated on Hector and Achilles. Probably, Ilion, had it been completed, would have ended with the death of Penthesilea at the hands of Achilles and of Achilles at the hands of Paris. Ilion begins ...
... flesh and resume the course of his terrestrial experiences with another name and in another environment. Achilles, let us say, is reborn as Alexander, the son of Philip, a Macedonian, conqueror not of Hector but of Darius, with a wider scope, with larger destinies; but it is still Achilles, it is the same personality that is reborn, only the bodily circumstances are different. It is this survival of the ...
... evidently a carry-over from the time he had been Augustus. The Mother, on one Pranam-occasion, saw two figures behind Dilip. When she described them to Sri Aurobindo he identified them as Horace and Hector. In the age of the siege of Troy Sri Aurobindo is taken to have been Paris, the Mother Helen and Nolini the husband of Helen, King Menelaus of Sparta from whom Trojan Paris seduced away Helen. On one ...
... appeal to me and their minds and characters seem to have strong affinities with mine in different ways. Have you any intuition in the matter of my past lives? The Mother once saw Horace (as well as Hector) behind Dilip; but she has told me nothing about myself except that she is positive I was an Athenian." Sri Aurobindo replied: "A strong influence from one or more poets or all of them together is ...
... his music under the direct influence of his soul – something most music lovers who know his (only) symphony, or his Trois Chorals for organ, will have difficulty disagreeing with. She would call Hector Berlioz, who transmuted every feeling into sound, ‘the very incarnation of music,’ and she put him, despite his shortcomings, among the greatest composers. She said that something like an unhealthy ...
... think, on the true model and have an honest metre. But the closing cretic of my last two is nothing but a cowardly flight from the difficulty of the spondee. I console myself by remembering that even Hector ran when he found himself in difficulties with Achilles and that the Bhāgavat 30 lays down palāyanam [flight] as one of the ordinary occupations of the Avatar. But the evasion is a fact and I ...
... their minds and characters seem to have strong affinities with mine in different ways. Have you any intuition in the matter of my past lives? Mother once saw Horace (as well as Hector) behind Dilip; but she has told me nothing about myself except that she is positive I was an Athenian. "A strong influence from one or more poets or all of them ...
... think, on the true model and have an honest metre. But the closing cretic of the last two is nothing but a cowardly flight from the difficulty of the spondee. I console myself by remembering that even Hector ran when he found himself in difficulties with Achilles and that the Bhagavat lays down पलायनम् as one of the ordinary occupations of the Avatar. But the evasion is a fact and I am afraid it spoils ...
... the example quoted by Arnold from Virgil, Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, Fortunam ex aliis Page 173 or the line quoted from Apollo's speech about the dead body of Hector and Achilles' long-nourished and too self-indulgent rage against it tlēton gar Moirai thumon thesan anthrōpoisin. These two lines Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave ...
... achievement on a grand scale, which sets the broad norm. We may quote one telling effect as a token from Roarke's rendering of the famous account of Priam's visit to Achilles to recover the body of Hector: Then the voice of Priam spoke and was raised in entreaty: "O Achilles, like to the gods, remember your father, Whose years are even as mine, on the grievous tread of his old age; ...
... what seem to me the most pathetic lines a lover ever spoke, pathetic by a heart-breaking homeliness verging on naivete. You may have heard of Troilus and Cressida. Troilus was a Trojan, a brother of Hector, and Cressida was a Greek girl. She had sworn fidelity, and Troilus had given her a brooch as a sign of his love. Once he sees on the coat of Diomedes this very gift of his to Cressida. He says to ...
... Transcendent and the Individual. Page 91 wrangle between himself and Agamemnon for nothing mote than a woman! But when he heard that his great friend Patroclus had been killed by Hector, then all his wrath flared up and he went out in a mad fury to fight. So his friend had to be sacrificed. Here too Abhimanyu had to be sacrificed in order that the others might join in the fight; ...
... delve into the finite. Homer, the father of Western literature, is an illustrative example. The men of Homer's world, however mighty and powerful they may be, are after all human beings. Achilles and Hector are but the royal editions or dignified versions of our frail human nature. Never do they reflect the Infinite. The gift of the West is to bring to the fore the speciality of the finite through the ...
... Arthur Quiller-Couch would have called the perfect 'static drama'. Page 374 The modern consciousness is obviously different from the 'heroic' consciousness of an Achilles or a Hector, of a Roland or a Kama; they were powers piled up in sheer strength, rather like masses of granite. The modern consciousness partakes of the complexity of a Hamlet and the goodness ...
... hostile kind. Our experience of the excellent Mr. Atkins goes to show that he is as a rule an extremely well-behaved man, chivalrous and kindly in his way, and certainly by no means a swaggering, hectoring bully. Yet he inevitably on occasion comes into unpleasant contact with the natives of the country." Then the Hare Street journal says that petty dealers and hucksters take advantage of the soldier's ...
... phase aggressive and brutal, but his soul-power pushed him to higher grades of a noble and visionary hero. Already in the Iliad of Homer, the way in which he responds to Priam's request to deliver Hector's dead body manifests a noble salute of a hero to a hero and a deeper perception and urge for harmomzation, In Ilion, Sri Aurobindo portrays Achilles as an exemplary hero. One feels in Ilion's Achilles ...
... post, or the gallows itself, what difference would that make to their duty as public men & national leaders? But the Barisal leaders instead submitted as meekly as rebuked & beaten schoolboys to a hectoring pedagogue cane in hand. The citizens of Rungpur showed at least a firmer spirit. Nevertheless the Barisal leaders have strong excuses for their failure of nerve. Decades of selfish ease & comfort ...
... the new Nationalism. One would have thought therefore that the Statesman would have the decency at least to treat him with some affectation of respect. But Mr. Mudholkar is handled as roughly and hectored and lectured as insolently as if he had been a Tilak or a Bipin Pal. The attack is not only insolent; it is unscrupulous. The Statesman does not hesitate to misrepresent Mr. Mudholkar in order to ...
... with his characters in order to make them live and bring out their essential points. This doesn't mean that he has sympathy with each and every character created. Homer put many good things into his Hector's mouth. But his sympathy was, if at all anywhere, on the side of Achilles. ...
... have been all kinds of them. It is therefore not surprising that not all were sympathetic to Arabindo Babu, some were quite hostile, to be frank. The Englishman led the field in anti-Arabindo Babu hectoring. That is not to say that other papers of the ilk trailed much behind! The Pioneer of Allahabad, for instance, wrote sarcastically: "The sudden disappearance of Mr. Arabinda Ghose from Calcutta ...
... jets of emotion and lightning intuitive leaps. Was it Goliath against David, or the Dragon against Perseus? The Alpine edifices of evidence, the superb dialectics, the ruthless browbeatings, the hectorings and the innuendoes, the banterings and the baitings, the legal quibblings and the trained ventriloquisms, all ultimately availed nothing in the face of the clear stream of Ganga that reflected ...
... and I will not deny thee. Meanwhile, thou shalt give me a respite till the seventh morn of the May. Till then presume not to touch me. Thy captive, Comol Cumary." Why, here's a warlike and most hectoring letter, Coomood. COOMOOD She pours her happy heart out so In fantasies; I never knew her half so wayward. The more her soul is snared between your hands, The more her lips will chide you ...
... survived so long, in whatever form it may be, and achieved so much within so 152. "There is no surer method of goading a docile people into a state of dangerous despair than the kind of hectoring and repression he (Sir B. Fuller, the then Governor of Bengal) has been attempting." — G.K. Gokhale Page 122 short a period witnesses to the immense vitality and vigour of the inspiration ...
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