Events mentioned in: Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 22, Death of Hector
- Apollo reveals to Achilles that he has been deceived
- Priam warns Hector that Achilles is approaching the city and urges him not to engage him in combat
- Hecuba begs Hector to come inside the walls of Troy and protect the city
- Hector runs in fear from Achilles, who pursues him around Troy three times
- Zeus asks the other gods whether Hector should live or die at the hand of Achilles
- Athena reminds Zeus that Hector is fated to die
- Zeus gives Athena permission to seal Hector’s fate
- Achilles pursues Hector until Apollo is too tired to continue protecting him
- Achilles warns the Achaean host not to attack Hector
- Zeus uses his golden scales to weigh the doom of Hector and Achilles
- Hector’s doom unbalances Zeus’ scales
- Apollo abandons Hector to his fate
- Athena appears to Achilles and urges him to kill Hector
- Athena takes on the appearance of Deiphobus and offers Hector her help against Achilles
- Hector agrees to fight Achilles, but stipulates that the winner will return the body of the loser to their people undesecrated
- Achilles rejects Hector’s terms and attacks him
- Achilles and Hector fight
- Achilles taunts the dying Hector
- Hector pleads with Achilles to return his body to his people, but Achilles refuses
- Hector tells Achilles that Paris and Apollo will kill him
- Hector dies
- Achilles strips Hector of his armour
- The Achaeans take turns wounding Hector’s corpse
- Achilles postpones mounting an attack on Troy in order to defile Hector’s corpse
- Achilles attaches Hector’s corpse to his chariot and drags him around in front of the city gates of Troy
- Hecuba and Priam mourn the death of Hector
- Andromache, unaware of Hector’s death, prepares for his return
- Andromache learns of Hector’s death and mourns him, joined by the women of Troy
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