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Bookmark or Share- Patroclus – MythopediaBut he made the mistake of fighting Hector, the strongest of the Trojan warriors. Hector killed Patroclus and stripped Achilles’ armor from the body. Roman statue of Menelaus holding the body of Patroclus (or Achilles holding the body of Achilles), 1st century CE copy after a Greek original from the 3rd century BCE
- Iliad - MythopediaWith Hector dead, Achilles holds a lavish funeral for Patroclus, complete with contests worthy of heroes (Book 23). In the final book of the Iliad (Book 24), the Trojan king Priam enters the Achaean camp to beg Achilles to return the body of his son Hector. Achilles pities Priam and gives him the body. Hector is given a great funeral at Troy.
- Andromache – MythopediaAndromache, daughter of King Eetion of Cilician Thebes, was the wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax. A devoted wife and mother, she lost her husband and son in the Trojan War, after which she herself was taken to Greece as a captive.
- Iliad: Book 6 (Full Text) - MythopediaThe Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache. The gods having left the field, the Grecians prevail. Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight.
- Achilles - MythopediaHector stripped the armor from Patroclus, but after a fierce battle, the Greeks managed to carry his body back to their camp. When Achilles saw his fallen friend, he was heartbroken. He wanted to fight Hector immediately, but Thetis made him wait until she could bring him a new set of armor fashioned by the smith god Hephaestus.
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