In the ninth year of the Trojan War, both sides were exhausted.
The Trojan prince Hector accepted the challenge of Achilles, the greatest greek hero since Hercules, and said goodbye to his wife, Andromal, and went out to fight.
Hector said goodbye to his wife forever
Hector's chariot, which ran three times around the city of Troy, was never able to get rid of Achilles, who was chasing after him.
"Let death decide our lives or deaths!" He stopped the chariot and waited for Achilles to approach.
"Great Achilles, let us have a fair duel, and please promise to treat the corpses of the other side well, and let the losers receive a decent funeral!" Hector said.
"Dreaming! Sheep who are entitled to bargain with the lion, Hector, I will abandon your body in the wilderness and let the wild dogs eat it. ”
"Achilles, whose heart is as hard as iron, only you would do such a cold-blooded thing, and besides, who wins and who loses is still unknown."
Athena, the protector of the Greek army, became Hector's assistant, Ephobes, encouraging him to summon up his courage to duel the terrible Achilles.
Achilles and Hector peak duel
The sky was shrouded in bird clouds, the ravens let out a terrible cry, and Hector, encouraged by his assistant, stepped out of his chariot and, with his javelin, and walked towardS Achilles.
The distance is more than ten meters away, "whizzing" and "whizzing", both sides simultaneously throw heavy birch wood to grab, the head is low, both dodge the past.
Hector looked back to ask his assistant Ephobus for a second javelin, and he found that standing by his side was Athena, the protector of the Greeks. And Achilles had already got his second javelin, brandishing it like a raging hurricane.
"Great goddess of wisdom, you turned into my assistant and seduced me, this is not a fair duel!" Hector said, drawing the short sword from his waist, and rushed up to Achilles.
Achilles saw that there was a gap in the throat above the Hector's heart armor, so he raised his javelin and plunged it from there.
Hector's throat was pierced by a javelin
Hector fell in a pool of blood, and he saw his wife, Andromag, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, already crying and falling to the ground, his brother Paris, the instigator of the Trojan War, and Helen, the most beautiful woman in Greece, helping her.
The javelin penetrated the body, but did not hurt the vocal cords, and Hector was able to speak:
"Cold-blooded and ruthless Achilles, once again, please, don't let the wild dogs eat my body, and let my relatives hold a solemn funeral for me." When he finished, he closed his eyes and died.
Achilles dragged Hector's body
Achilles did not agree, and in a victorious posture, he undressed Hector's armor, took out an iron file, drilled two holes in the two heels of the corpse, crossed it with ox tendons, tied it to the back of the chariot, and raced toward the Greek camp with the dust along the way.
When Achilles was born, his mother Thetis, the goddess of the sea, carried his heels and forged them with divine fire, except for the fatal death pit of the heels, Achilles was invincible to the gods.
Achilles' heel was the only weakness
Achilles treated Hector's body with such cruelty that the gods were dissatisfied, and soon after, with the help of Apollo, the sun god hiding in the clouds, Perris shot through his heel with a dark arrow.
"Only a coward hurts someone with a dark arrow in his back!" Achilles drew a sharp arrow from his heel, held it in his hand, and fell to the ground in vain, and the greatest hero of the late Ancient Greek period died.
Achilles' heel was shot by Paris