Trojan War, Achilles Dragging Hector

Trojan War, Achilles Dragging Hector

Achilles dragging the body of Hector around Troy. In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. Legends state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel. He died because of a small wound on his heel, thus the term Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's principal weakness. Hector was a Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy. Achilles defeated Hector in combat, he then slit Hector's heels and passed the girdle that Ajax had given Hector through the slits. He then fastened the girdle to his chariot and drove his fallen enemy through the dust to his camp. For the next twelve days, Achilles mistreated the body, but it remained preserved from all injury by Apollo and Aphrodite. Mezzotint after G. Hamilton, 1794.

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