Who led the Trojans in their fighting against the Achaeans? Detailed answer

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Who led the Trojans in their fighting against the Achaeans?

The main Trojan hero during the Trojan War was Hector, the first-born and most prominent of the sons of King Priam and Hecuba. Hector did not approve of the abduction of the Spartan queen Helen by his brother Paris and even suggested that the council of Trojan leaders return her to her husband. However, the first Greek who set foot on Trojan land (Protesilaus) fell precisely at the hands of Hector.

Hector really became famous in the tenth year of the war. As the eldest son and immediate successor of Priam, he led the fighting of the Trojans and at the same time distinguished himself by strength and heroism and inflicted great damage on the Greeks. He challenged Achilles to a duel, and when he replied that he was no longer fighting, he entered into single combat with Ajax Telamonides, the most powerful Greek hero after Achilles.

Under the leadership of Hector, the Trojans broke into the fortified enemy camp, approached the Greek ships and managed to set fire to one of them. Only the intervention of Poseidon prevented the complete defeat of the Greeks. Before the very gates of the besieged city, Hector managed with the help of Apollo to slay Patroclus and remove the armor of Achilles from the slain.

After Achilles entered the battle, Hector, despite the pleas of his parents, remained in the field one on one with him and died in a duel, predicting the imminent death of Achilles himself. The latter, obsessed with a thirst for revenge for his friend Patroclus, tied the body of the murdered Hector to his chariot and traveled around Troy, dragging the corpse of the slain enemy. Although in the future Achilles continued to desecrate the body of Hector, neither predatory animals nor decay touched him: the dead Hector was protected by Apollo, who repeatedly helped his pet during his lifetime.

Apollo was the first to raise his voice in defense of the murdered Hector at the council of the gods - and Achilles received an order from Zeus to give the body of the murdered Priam, who gave his son an honorable funeral. After the fall of Troy, the Greeks, fearing revenge for Hector, were afraid to leave alive even his little son Astyanax.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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