Andromache

At first sight, Hektor and Andromache are the ideal couple; they love each other, have a child, and are committed to each other. But because of the war, they got into disagreements. Andromache wanted for them to have long happy lives; Hektor, on the other hand, wanted to go out and fight for honor. Hektor could have still fought bravely from the confines of the fort, but he wanted to look like he was the bravest and toughest guy around. He didn't empathize with Andromache and her loss; he was too busy

certainly die and there will be no one to protect Andromache or his child. His strength and humanity is also shown through his continuing to fight, instead of staying in safety behind the Trojan walls with his family. This loyalty to Troy shows Hector’s importance to the Trojan cause. It is established in this scene that the Trojan success depends entirely on Hector. This scene also foreshadows the death of Hector, the fall of Troy and of the fate of Andromache and Astyanax. It is this foreshadowing which

Hector and Achilles differently. In the Iliad Andromache is at home preparing a cauldron for Hector to bath in when he returns home; Andromache had no idea that hector was killed until she heard screaming from the rampart; she then hurried to the scene and when she witnessed Hector’s body being dragged on the back of Achilles’ chariot. Andromache fainted at the horrible site, struggling for breath she was supported by her family members. In troy Andromache was on the rampart watching Achilles and Hector

for his country, Hektor is both a compassionate husband to Andromache and a brave father to their son, “So speaking he set his child again in the arms of his beloved wife, who took him back again to her fragrant bosom smiling in her tears; and her husband saw, and took pity upon her, and stroked her with his hand, and called her by name and spoke to her.” (6.482-486) These women do not entirely affect the men fighting in war, Andromache fails to convince Hector not to fight Achilles, but with their

war, where he chose to sit out of the war, rather than to fight and slaughter as he always has in wars. Homer, the author of the Iliad, chose to make Achilles a symbol of an alternative exception towards the conventions of Honor and Glory, where Andromache, Hector’s wife, also serves as a reminder

men, women were also shown to play important roles and were weaved into the tale just as tightly as their male counterparts. In The Iliad, within a male-central battle poem, females such as Hector’s mother and Priam’s wife Hecuba and Hector’s wife Andromache played secondary roles, showing the sensitive and compassionate sides of women in ancient Greece. Odysseus’s journey home after the end of the war in The Odyssey had him encounter the powerful sorceress Circe and ultimately

In the Iliad, Homer tells a story of a brutal nine year war between the Trojans and the Greeks. The two sides, with blessed champions on both sides, are fighting over Helen, the most beautiful mortal woman ever born. In addition, both sides fight for glory, as Ancient Greek society valued success in battle and the amount of spoils one brings back from war. While Hector and Paris both are champions of Troy, and share a noble pedigree, the two heros show a different set of priorities on the battlefield;

as items of exchange, and as goddesses. These ideas are shown throughout the text through a range of characters and in a variety of ways. We see the position of women in society through their normal social roles as mothers and wives. (Hecuba, Andromache in Book VI). There are women who are the stereotyped mothers, like Achilles’ mother Thetis, and Queen Hecuba, who in the course of the epic poem are seen to be either weeping or troubled with the affairs of their sons. [TIES INTO SECOND PARAGRAPH]

Different types of women are represented in the epic poem The Iliad: strong-willed and wise women, wicked and ruthless women, or even women who cause the downfall of the protagonist male hero. Also, there are women depicted as possessions or, in other words, war prizes and women who have little or no control over her destiny. The epic poem, focuses centrally on the rage between men but it also happens that most of the time this rage is affected, initiated, and inspired by a woman. The first woman

The women of the Iliad play significant roles in the Trojan war, regardless of whether or not their role is active. Although they do not take up arms and fight, Chryseis, Briseis, Helen, and Andromache all impact both the outcome of the war as well as the lives and reputations of those in it. Chryseis, the first woman to be mentioned in the Iliad, is the one who inadvertently sets off a chain of events that would ultimately determine the outcome of the war. Because Agamemnon refused to return