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Two of the main characters in Homer’s The Iliad, Achilles and Hector, compare very differently in many ways. Although they were both war heroes, they came from different sides of the battle and fought each other under different beliefs. These two brave warriors fought to the death in Book 22, where Hector eve ....
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.... not fighting back to “authorize” the death, but only to defend his and his people’s honor. Like this difference, Achilles and Hector also differed in the fact that Achilles was a lot more brutal and cruel than Hector. Achilles had a strong mindset, and could not be “won over.” He has no forgiveness for even Hector told him with his this last dying breath: “I see you now for what you are...iron...your heart is.” Hector differed from this because he did not seem quite as brutal or violent as Achilles, but he was not a sweet, innocent man ....
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