no man, against my fate, sends me to hades / and as for fate, i'm sure no man escapes it, / neither a good nor bad man, once he's born.

• family
  • parents/ priam & hecuba
  • siblings/ paris, deiphobus, helenus
  • wife/ andromache
  • children/ scamandrius or astyanax
• role
  • greatest fighter of the trojans
  • general in the trojan war
  • fought ajax
  • fought nestor
  • fought diomedes
  • fought patroclus and killed him
• death
  • killed by achilles, who sought revenge for the death of patroclus
  • his body was dragged around patroclus' grave/the city of troy
• other
  • considered to be the real hero of the iliad

the iliad