The Great Duel between Achilles and Hector - The Trojan War Saga Ep 26 - See U in History Art: Raphael Gritti Color: Rod Fernades #GreekMythology #Mythology #SeeUinHistory #History #MythologyExplained
You wont have eyes tonight. You wont have ears or a tongue. You'll wander the underworld blind deaf and dumb and all of the dead will know. This is Hector, the fool who thought he killed achilles
Hector fought for his country which is why in German lore he considered one of the Worthies ,Achilles ,Well,was a Pure warrior,born to end Men’s lives,in philosophy Achilles is Thanatos ,the bringer of Death and Chaos..
@@ultimatedouchebag6760he was neither his cousin nor his lover in the actual epic. He is just Achilles' best friend. The whole gay interpretation is by later people and the cousin interpretation is from the movie.
Achilles knew he was going to win the fight against Hector but he also knew he was fated to die only after Hector. So he was immortal as long as Hector lived. He had one more epic duel with a Trojan ally. He knew he could lose but he won. The fates always win. He was killed in battle but never bested in single combat. After the war Aeneas escaped and eventually founded the city of USC.
May the Gods honor Crown Prince Hector with peace and salvation in the afterlife. I don't want to preach or anyting but if you ak me, Hector is what a man should be: a loyal, dutiful and repectful son. A loving, caring husband and father. A warrior who although dislikes violence and death is willing to fight if it means to protect his homeland and family. To PROTECT not to CONQUER. The world has more than enough Achilles. But hardly enough Hectors.
@ΧΡΗΣΤΟΣ ΑΜΑΝΑΤΙΔΗΣ I agree i know as greeks we are supposed to take the side of the Greeks but Hector and Odysseus are the true heroes of the Trojan war.
@@TheCornerstone33 yes. Frankly, I kind of like Ajax the great too. He was a good man. A fair one. One who believed that a person can get ahead in life with his own merits instead of relying on the Gods to clean up for him. And he was punished for that. He deserved better
@@ulumpalag7139 I couldn't agree more. Achilles, if we see this through a more distant eye, is practically a spoiled brat: granted, he had every right to be angry at Agamemnon for his disrespectful behaviour, but he could have just left. Instead, he asked for a ton of calamities for his comrades, just so he can salvage his wounded pride
May the Gods honor Crown Prince Hector with peace and salvation in the afterlife. I don't want to preach or anyting but if you ak me, Hector is what a man should be: a loyal, dutiful and repectful son. A loving, caring husband and father. A warrior who although dislikes violence and death is willing to fight if it means to protect his homeland and family. To PROTECT not to CONQUER. The world has more than enough Achilles. But hardly enough Hectors.
How come this doesn't touch on the most important aspect of this fight? Hector was using Achilles's armor, the armor he took from Patroclus. He was "the old Achilles". The one that put pride above all. And Achilles, in this fight, was using a new armor. He was a newer Achilles. He was at his prime fury. It was Achilles vs Achilles. Achilles fighting his old self, his old burdens and mistakes. Really weird that it ignores the significance of this fight by missing out VERY important details.
Wow that's like a big F you to aquiles like "I found this loot on your possible cousin more likely lover guy that impersonated you, now let's a clean epic fight"
Achilles doesn't care if he dies or not, no curse can hurt him. If he dies then at least he can see his friend again. Avenging Perikles is all he cared about.
Hector was always my favorite and Eric Bana's portrayal of him in Troy sealed it. That scene was hard to watch when I was younger and honestly still is but that fight was epic. Achilles was Achilles though and was the best for a reason. I liked that in the end, he did the honorable thing for Hector's body.
@@alecvillavilla9978 Achilles is nothing more than a rage filled killer with divine plot armor. Hector was human who fought for his home and family. Real ones know who the greatest really is.
You guys never disappoint. After waiting for a long time for this moment to arrive. You did well. The narration and animation was great. Thanks! you made my day.
Wow, we’re already on ep 26. I’ve loved this series since i first found it while looking for materials and reliable sources for this fic im writing on the Trojan war. Keep up the awesome work!!!
The irony of it; how the great warrior Achilles wanted the legacy of his name to live through the centuries; however, whenever people say it, they’re usually talking about someone’s weakness (ie. Achilles’ heel)
Although i want to empathize with Hector, he did helped in breaking the pact between Paris and Menelaus by intervening. Achilles did not trust Hector with the pact he offered to begin with (even though he was confident about his victory). Whether Hector would have kept his word or not, he had it coming from the moment he decided to protect Paris from Greeks. Achilles went overboard with his brutal vengeance but i can see why he did not take Hector's offer. Despite Hector being considered the noblest of Troy, he was a not very honorable on a universal scale. love the series btw.
I suddenly started to think about this battle and rewatched their battle scene from the movie Troy yesterday and you post this video about their battle now 😳 A coincidence? Things like this happens to me many times
I Loved Archiles until he dragged Hector's body on the ground after killing him. That was the stupidest thing I have ever seen a warrior do. I hate him for that.
I mean he was fueled with anger against Hector for what he did to Patroclus. He later kind of makes up for it when Priam begs him for his son body. ( One of the most tragic scenes in all of fiction imo)
In the context of the narrative, Achilles is the pinnacle of glory and honour. Not by modern standards nor that of Antiquity. It reflects an age where the greatest honour was bestowed upon the strongest and the most manly. A more savage, albeit romantic, era.
As always I love your work. I hope to see you cover everything after the Trojan War. The Aenied The Odyssey And the returns for all the Greeks, all the betrayal, hardship and treachery, I would love it.
@@davexorus9836 No mention of the word "Rome" itself, but in the illiad, it was mentioned he had a great destiny ahead of him and he would lead the Trojan people.
Humans living their lives believing that they are acting on their own free will, when they are actually mere pawns to the gods. They live and die by rules they never learned and every action they take is a play in a game they do not understand. What ancient Greek mythology really needed was the god of accountability.
Yes, the death of Patroclus cuts Achilles to the quick....and in part he blames himself for allowing Patroclus to wear his armor in the first place...yet the plan of doing so came not from Patroclus but from an idea that old Nestor gave him....notice that when told of his friend's death and the grief Achilles undergoes, we don't hear anything from old Nestor about HIS role in this debacle! I guess with age, does come wisdom.
@@PrimordialNyx I have read Iliad and Odyssey. People like you would not be satisvied if I have wrote every fact from the book. In general Achilles fight for glory, he did fight Hector for revenge, but his motivation to enter the war was glory, unlike Hector who entered to war to defend his city and family.
with time, I realized who was Hector? the Prince of a Great country who was Achilles? a Warrior of a small County. Hector was so noble to fight that fight. Or it was just an arrangement of the Gods
I have a question in which version does it show Priam wanting to throw himself off the walls of troy after hector's death? Is it in the Iliad? I can't find it. Or is it Aeschylus ?
Good, we are used to cinematic fight scenes, the duel between the two epic heroes: Achilles & Hector, is a brief affair. Hector ought to be depicted wearing the old armour of Achilles though. Incidentally, it is amusing to imagine the spectacle of the two warriors running around in circles, with crowds of archaeans trailing behind them, attempting to slay Hector with unfocused projectiles. Like a wacky rat race.
In the Illiad Hector was also donning Achilles's first armour which he had stripped from Patroclus body after killing him. This armour was also godly and forged by the gods.
There's no cheating, which anyway was simply out of Achilles's literary character: in the Iliad he is not invulnerable and the fighting equipment he'd received was so heavy that wearing and using it, even running with it, was a prowess in itself that no other warrior would have been able to perform. Actually, the god had made exceptional fighting tools purposefully for the greatest warrior.
Achilles dish ragged every man he ever came across. The fact an arrow hit him in the heel and made him fall off the chariot breaking his neck is just a lucky shot.
There is no source saying Achilles had a romantic relationship with Patroclus just gay people taking stuff out of context. Achilles literally betrayed his people over a woman and they wanna make him gay
@@TheBello2009 Well, the person who said that on the podcast probably never read the Iliad. This story that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers came from the book The Song of Achilles, and that's how the author of the book interprets their relationship, but it's just a fanfic that some people have taken seriously.
Wait 😐🤨 I'm a Lil bit confused here , so how did Achilles get into Troy , past the the huge Trojan Gates , past the guards and parade Hector's Body around through the city so all the citizens can see him ? I honestly don't think Hector's pops would have allowed Achilles to do such a hate crime as that or did he ?
Maaan I can't accept the outcome of this fight, it was cool for sure, but Achilles had such amazing support, having armor crafted by Hephaestus himself as one of them, Hector had nothing to match that level of support. Not saying Achilles shouldn't have won the fight, but this fight just seemed pretty one-sided to me.
Hector had Achilles' old armour. The one that Patroclus was wearing. He brought it upon himself. Had he not taken the armour, Achilles would not get a new better one.
@@alecvillavilla9978I mean, you have to admit that an armor made by Hephaestus isn't just a minecraft skin,but a very powerful support. Also, if you do the math, by the time of this fight Achilles was between 20 and 30,while Hector was 40 at least (if we presume that when Paris came back to Troy, Hector was just 20 and then 20 years passed),and considering that there isn't much skill difference between the two, Achilles is obviously in a better position than Hector. Also it didn't help the fact that Achilles had a spear (since athena took it and threw it back to him), while Hector didn't (since athena made him think to have his brother ready to gave it back to him). A spear is 2-3 metres long, while Hector had to be much closer to attack Achilles directly. If you see it this way, Achilles had a real big advantage over Hector.
