Why did Hector go out and fight Achilles if he knew that he would lose? Why didn't he just stay behind the walls? Was he moronic?
Why did Hector go out and fight Achilles if he knew that he would lose? Why didn't he just stay behind the walls?
Why did Hector go out and fight Achilles if he knew that he would lose? Why didn't he just stay behind the walls? Was he moronic?
It's called having honor and pride, chud
It's called being a moron who abandons his people. Here is how you respond to some moron waltzing up to you alone while you have an army at your back, asking to 1 v 1 you.
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It's called war. Boo hoo Achilles your friend died. Perhaps you should have fought beside him. Keep shouting my name crybaby.
>All my life I've lived by a code and the code is simple: honor the gods, love your woman and defend your country.
>honor the gods
What gods do you honor by throwing your life away?
>love your woman
Live to raise your child moron
>defend your country
Don't leave your people in the command of you mild mannered/pious father and certainly not your weasel brother
I hate Hector because his character should know better
Read the manga you morons
Same reason Gawain leaves Bertilak’s castle. Same reason Aeneas leaves Carthage. Same reason Jesus doesn’t leave Gethsemane.
>Same reason Gawain leaves Bertilak’s castle. Same reason Aeneas leaves Carthage.
Gawain and Aeneas both have an important mission to fulfil, and their stays at Bertilak's castle and Carthage are detours. Troy is everything to Hector.
>if he knew that he would lose?
He didn't think he would lose, Athena tricked him and robbed him of his wisdom.
Is this the Greek version of coping?
>Θε Γοδς μαδε με δο ιτ! Ι σωεαρ!
Then why'd he spend like three hours running around in circles?
Achilles had done hardly anything for months. It was a tactic to tire him. Didn't work
He already 1-0'd Achilles, he thought he could do it again
At least in the movie, he knew he hadn't fought Achilles before so he KNEW the real Achilles was going to kill him dead. That's why he bid farewell to his family before going out.
he was a man. man's gotta do what he's gotta do.
Hector originally left the walls to negotiate a peace and kept running away from Achilles cause he knew he couldn't win. However, in the original story, he's tricked by the God's into fighting as they pretend to be one of Hector's brothers so they can 2v1 Achilles. But even the true 1v1 isn't fair as the Gods teleport spears back into Achilles' hand.
Honestly, it's pretty fricking stupid. Achilles vs Hector is remembered because of it's importance to the story but the actual actions were dogshit. They made Hector look like a pussy for no reason. I'm glad the movie changed it.
He was an honourable Trojan not a filthy g*eek
Because it was destiny holy shit read the fricking book.
It was fear of reproach from his friend Polydamas, and a lot of other things. There was nothing that the archers could do about it. It was among the nobles, real aristocratic shit. They even disfigured Hektor's body so his mother couldn't give him an open pyre at the funeral.
Patroclus was a greek man and Hector wasn't. The archers had to sit still and take it.
It was pretty obvious that every woman that laid their eyes upon him would summon the sahara desert between their legs if he didn’t fight
Hector is a hero, even if there was only a fraction of a chance to kill Achilles he would give his life for the chance, not that honourless Greeks would know anything about that
This. Hector was a Turk.
>implying Troy wasn't a Greek city state
Turks are just muslim Greeks with some other assorted asian muttage. At least Western Turks.
Reminder that Paris did nothing wrong.
his men saw him killed a kid. If he chicken out the fight, they won't respect him
>middle class privileged moronic incel with no friends or female attention cannot fathom that there are more important things in life then immediate self preservation
Incels are just like women, they cannot possibly fathom the concept of honor.
He had courage and loyalty
He was a hero of Troy and beloved by his people
He had the chance to defeat the famed Achilles of legend, and he went for it
In the illiad he pussies out and flees, Achilles chases him three times around the city before killing him