Agamemnon vs. Hektor: The Headstrong and the Model Commander The Achaian army finishes breakfast, dons their armor and marches out onto the field. They then charge ferociously, screaming as loudly as they can, and thrusting their spears and swords into the flesh of any Trojan that steps into their path. Later, the Trojan army takes control of the battlefield. The soldiers grin as they tear the armor off their fallen enemies, they cheer and then …showed first 75 words of 6866 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6866 total…let his feelings get the better of him with his life. Hektor (a character that represents what is good about humans) plays a tragic hero in the Iliad, gaining the reader’s pity and support, but in the end unable to escape his fate. As the ultimate leader, he knew that he had to pay the ultimate price for his men, and when the end came, he still was thinking about everyone else but himself.